Laurentiu Petrea

Senior Technology Leader; AI Agents & AI Tech Strategy

12 years in Technology & Product, 6 years in Leadership.

ex-Oracle, ex-Yelp + 6 startups and scale-ups

Previously Director of Engineering & AI at DataGuard

Today I help companies not be left behind on AI. I am also building and launching my own AI products.

Areas of Expertise

AI & Software

I am in a rare position to have deep technical expertise in both AI and Software Engineering.

I have built AI products from scratch, and trained and managed teams of AI engineers.

I can build high performing AI teams and AI Agents.

Strategy

Strategy is about deriving insights from vast amounts of data points and making decisions that will shape the future of the company.

I understand how to leverage technology to drive business value and I can translate complex technical concepts into simple terms.

Leadership

I have a track record of building and leading high performing Engineering teams

I prefer small, focused teams. I cut down on unnecessary process and clutter and together with Product, we focus on delivering value.

Projects

Ask Alfredo

Alfredo is an AI Agent that helps you find online products, does comparisons and summarizes reviews.

Status: In Beta

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CataLlama

CataLlama is the best performing open source LLM on the Catalan Language.

The LLM is trained by me and I open-sourced it, including the dataset and training recipes

Status: Live

Check it out

HeroDev

HeroDev was a platform that offered all the building blocks of AI applications and training materials for Software Engineers.

Status: defunct

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