Dragos Velicanu
Co-Founder, CTO at Meadow AI
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDragos Velicanu is a Co-Founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building machine learning and data science platforms on modern cloud infrastructure, blending rigorous research instincts from a PhD in physics at MIT with product-focused engineering. He transitioned from analyzing terabytes of collision data at CERN to designing low-latency, production-ready data pipelines and autonomous trading systems, then led data engineering at consumer fintech and infrastructure startups before founding Meadow AI. Dragos excels at turning complex, high-throughput data problems into reliable, automated systems—often optimizing for concurrency and real-time ingestion under tight latency constraints. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings a rare combination of experimental physics discipline, distributed systems practice, and hands-on startup leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS), Applied Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Applied Physics at Columbia Engineering
Github Skills (93)
authentication10
streamlit10
python9
pyflakes9
stylelint9
flake9
pycodestyle8
jq8
flycheck7
distributed-computing7
linter7
static-analysis7
terminal-emulator7
sharepoint7
plaid7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
velicanu/tosql
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:16 PRs, 22 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 2 months
velicanu/fast-mbox
May 2021 - May 2025
Collection of tools to efficiently process large mbox files.
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 1 month
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