# Andrei S. > Product minded software engineer Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andreis Builder with a background in product and VC, now focused on making software. I’m especially interested in how AI can help people reflect, express themselves, and move more quickly. I care about how things feel, not just how they function. I work best by taking young ideas and shaping them quickly with others. ## Work Experience ### Founding Product Engineer @ Liftoff Jan 2026 – Present | New York, United States ### AI Feature Engineer @ Liftoff Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 Built an MVP LinkedIn connections analysis feature that uses LLMs to suggest relevant connectors to Hiring Managers with an active job search on the platform. ### Full Stack Engineer @ Misc. Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 Stance Health: Rebuilt patient landing and results pages focusing on mobile (React/Chakra/Fast API/Next.js), reducing API over-fetching. Achieved faster load times on form results page, improving drop off during onboarding. Landing pages are now mobile friendly. Holdfast: Outlined research collaboration tool for NOAA-backed aquaculture grants (Postgres, tRPC). Enabled 20+ researchers to co-develop proposals, see shared resources, and streamline multi-institution submissions. Used MapLibre to create a collaborative resource map. ### Full-Stack Engineering @ Fractal Tech Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 https://fractalbootcamp.com/ Competencies in React, Typescript, NextJS, Authentication, Database Design, tRPC, Websockets, APIs, React Native, AI SDKs, AI feature development, Tailwind, shadcn, Sentry, GCP, and other various full-stack technologies ### Product Manager @ NBCUniversal Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States - Led the discovery and building of an AI-aided fact-checking tool for journalists and producers across all of NBCUniversal News Group, helping dramatically speed up access to internal knowledge. - Saved >$1.5m in annual subscription costs by surveying creative tool use across NBCU News Group. - Led NBCU News Group people, places, and things scheduling software vendor analysis and customization, part of a rethink of how news is made with digital tools and AI. ### Associate Product Manager @ Warner Bros. Discovery Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States - Collaborated with senior stakeholders in engineering, ad tech, business, and merchandising to seamlessly consolidate legacy platforms post-merger and transition a client engineering team with no loss of velocity. - Spearheaded sprint planning, prioritization of global accessibility and compliance, new features, and tech debt for 20+ (TLC, TNT, HGTV, Food Network, etc.) TVE brands’ multi-platform roadmaps and engineering teams. - Achieved 18% lift in app store rating ratio by solving 10+ consumer facing bugs and releasing 2 new features. - Improved streaming performance 62% by coordinating 3 engineering teams through a player and platform upgrade. - Lead research and prioritization for a tiger team assembled to create a new WBD service. ### Associate Product Management Intern @ Warner Bros. Discovery Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States - Grew ‘My List’ north-star metric with ‘Labs’ team by leading re-design of UI with Sr. PM, utilizing CX data. - Automated CX data ingestion, now 9x faster by ideating and building an ML-based CX data sentiment analysis tool. - Proposed 12 recommendations to reduce CX volume to 4 Sr. PMs using Adobe Analytics and internal CX data tools. ### Research Fellow @ Anthos Capital Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Helped build a resource library for portfolio company leadership teams. Focused on product, customer success, and ESG resources and tools. ### Growth Product Intern (a16z Product Intern Placement) @ BlocPower Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States Increased survey click-thru rate from 8% to 33% by implementing an end-page with CTA and improving form UI. Redesigned and developed (Webflow) entire website to reduce clutter and increase form completion rate for national expansion. Implemented website heatmapping and analytics (Hotjar) to inform future design updates and north-star metric. ### User Experience & Operations Intern @ Candor Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco / Remote Worked on Candor’s new ‘Mock Interview’ community. Proposed changes to 3 different website pages by designing alternative flows in Figma. Tested 5 growth-marketing campaigns for college and high school students alongside Growth Marketing Manager. Wrote copy and two articles for SEO and marketing purposes. Utilized attitudinal UX research methods to conduct 30+ intro customer calls to better understand user needs. ### Growth Product Intern @ Autodesk Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Portland, Oregon Area Led a group of 15 interns working on Synthesis, an Autodesk simulator and emulator for the education market. Launched Autodesk Day events globally, where 400 users tested beta builds and increased brand recognition. Redesigned entire nav-bar and settings UI by collaborating with UX/UI, design, and surveying professionals. Reached 660,000 students annually by designing a flyer and sticker sheet put in FRC robotics Kit of Parts. I also worked on a few side projects – one of which was helping design a new museum exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI). OMSI wanted to inspire elementary school aged kids to think about design. They approached Autodesk to make a custom library in Tinkercad that would run on iPads in the exhibit, where kids could easily drag and drop different furniture pieces to create environments that 'fostered communication.' The official blog post is linked below. A 'Day in the Life' video I made for the new interns next summer is also linked below. ### Software & Marketing Intern @ Locl.io Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Portland, Oregon Area Created 3 new dashboard features to manage business location profiles with Google My Business API. Automated reformatting for 400+ image libraries for bulk upload by implementing a custom image resizing tool. Produced 10+ conference, email, print, and digital content pieces for marketing efforts, clients, and trade shows. Examples of the education module and Locl's websites are linked below. ### XXcelerate Fund Content & Writing Intern @ X X C E L E R A T E Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Portland, Oregon Area I had three main tasks: 1) Interview cohort CEO's to produce short blog post style write-ups 2) Curate content and re-design website - worked in tandem with a developer 3) Help plan the the first cohort's graduation in October 2018. Booked Oregon Senator Ron Wyden to speak at the event ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Human-Computer Interaction and Innovation Systems NYU Gallatin ### High School Diploma Catlin Gabel School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrei-c-stoica - Portfolio: https://andrei.bio/ - Portfolio: https://andreisthoughts.substack.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/andreis JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andreis/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29