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Paul Popescu

AI Solutions Architect

€389/day
Bucharest, RO
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Paul

I'm Cătălin Paul Popescu — most people call me Paul.
I'm an AI Solutions Architect & Agentic AI Engineer: I build software products with AI assistance, but the technical and product decisions are mine.
AI is an execution partner, not the author.

10+ years in IT, the last year and a half deep in AI work — and I genuinely enjoy it. Started with ChatGPT and Claude in 2025, I work daily with multi-agent orchestration pipelines: a coordinator session spawns parallel implementation sessions, monitors progress, and escalates only novel questions to me. Full applications built end-to-end in a single workflow.
At Camusat Holding (international group, ~15 subsidiaries) I'm the AI Solutions Architect for the company's AI initiatives across all departments. I built an internal multi-project AI orchestrator and an email provisioning portal used weekly by the IT team.

In parallel I'm building Instantino — a B2B SaaS platform for instant PDF quotes, solo, end-to-end: PHP + MySQL, Stripe and Auth0 integrations, PDF generation, DKIM/DMARC email infrastructure, programmatic SEO in 6 languages.
Before AI, 8+ years in network administration (6+ at Camusat): Active Directory, Zimbra, VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, Fortinet, Zabbix. That infrastructure mindset is why my AI systems run in production, not just demos.
Open to AI integration projects, custom MCP servers, B2B SaaS architecture, and multi-week engagements.

Portofolio:
apps.instantpdf.ro
  • Romanian

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Bucharest (up to 50km), Sibiu (up to 50km), Constanța (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Camusat Holding
    AI Solutions Architect
    TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    August 2019 - Today (6 years and 11 months)
    Bucharest, Romania
    Responsible for the company's AI initiatives across all departments (DevOps, web design, coding, IT). Single point of truth for all AI projects in the group.

    Key deliveries:
    • Built and adapted a multi-project AI orchestrator workspace (custom MCP server with scope-aware security, token authorization) — single point of truth for all AI initiatives across the company.
    • Delivered MailDesk v2.0 — internal portal for provisioning Zimbra email accounts via RT ticketing, in active production, used weekly by the IT team.
    • Built Audisity — Windows desktop application for storage audit through granular scanning by file type (ZIP, JPG, PST, file age). Integrated licensing system for parallel commercial exploitation.
    • Governance, audit and verification across all AI projects in the company. I step in when colleagues from DevOps, web design or coding get stuck on AI projects, and I align deliverables to IT department standards.
    • Internal mentor for colleagues on AI usage.

    Stack: PHP 8.x, Python, custom MCP servers, OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini APIs, Claude Code, Linux VPS, MySQL.
    artificial intelligence MCP
  • camusat
    Network Administrator
    TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    January 2019 - Today (7 years and 6 months)
    Bucharest, Romania
    Network administration for Camusat Holding — international group with ~15 subsidiaries across Romania, France, and other European countries.

    Responsibilities:
    • Multi-country Active Directory administration for ~15 subsidiaries (Romania, France, other EU countries).
    • Zimbra email server administration via SSH and the Zimbra admin control panel.
    • Virtualization with VMware ESXi and Hyper-V; Group Policy (GPO) configuration.
    • Network security: Fortinet (firewall + VPN), Zabbix monitoring across local and subsidiary platforms.
    • File systems monitoring across local and subsidiary infrastructure.
    • Office 365 administration, VPN configuration, license allocation and management.
    • Ticketing platform administration (user access management).
    • Cloud services management and configuration.
    • Procedures and local IT training for users and IT responsibles in subsidiaries.
    Active Directory Zabbix
  • Instantino
    Solo Founder
    DIGITAL AND IT
    June 2025 - Today (1 year and 1 month)
    Bucharest, Romania
    B2B SaaS platform for instant PDF quotes — built end-to-end and solo. In production since March 2026.

    What I built:
    • Multi-tenant architecture: PHP + MySQL backend, Tailwind + Vanilla JS frontend, automated deployment.
    • Two separate authenticated zones running on the same codebase, routed by hostname (Apache .htaccess): panel.instantino.ro for clients (manage incoming quote requests, statuses, internal comments, PDF downloads, CSV/XLSX exports, firm settings, branding) — and admin.instantino.ro for platform operations (client and plan management, AI forms approval queue, deploy automation, SEO audit, internal KPIs), protected by WebAuthn FIDO2.
    • Integrations: Stripe Live, Auth0 SSO, WebAuthn FIDO2, mPDF, PHPMailer (SMTP + IMAP monitoring).
    • Support for 6 languages (RO / EN / FR / DE / IT / ES) with programmatic SEO, dynamic sitemap, cross-domain hreflang.
    • Onboarding wizard with automatic niche detection via AI and AI generator of custom forms for unknown niches, with admin approval queue.
    • Custom MCP server in PHP with dedicated tools for local orchestration with Claude Code.
    • Complete no-code form creation pipeline — 11 admin web tools that take a form from request to publication.
    • Nexus Cockpit v2 — interactive terminal dashboard (Python + Textual) for live monitoring with SQLite event log.
    • Custom cold email outreach module with automatic SMTP warm-up, account testing (DNS + RBL + Postmark + mail-tester), multi-language reply categorizer.
    • Auto-publishing on Facebook + LinkedIn and multilingual AI video content for marketing.

    Stack: PHP 7.4 / 8.x, MySQL, Python, Claude Code, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Stripe, Auth0, WebAuthn.
    AI Automation SAAS LLM

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Education

  • Hyperion University
    2014
  • Mathematics-Computer Science
    Ecoprof High School
    2006
    Mathematics-Computer Science

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