# Dragos Ciupureanu

> Engineering Lead at Rule 30 | Building AI systems for venture capital

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/dragosciupureanu

Engineering leader with 11+ years of experience, currently Engineering Lead at Rule 30 — an AI-powered venture capital platform that autonomously evaluates early-stage startups for investment.

I build and scale the platform end-to-end: a production multi-agent LLM system, 20+ microservices across Python and TypeScript, ML prediction pipelines, and cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP. I lead a team of engineers and own the full stack — from React/Next.js frontends and NestJS/GraphQL APIs to FastAPI ML services, Kubernetes deployments, and Terraform infrastructure.

Before Rule 30, I spent 4.5 years at Adaptavist (rising to Senior Software Engineer) building Atlassian ecosystem tools, and 2 years at American Express developing customer-facing applications.

BSc (Hons) Computer Science, 1st Class — University of Manchester.

## Work Experience
### Engineering Lead @ rule30
Jan 2025 – Present | London Area, United Kingdom
Rule 30 is an AI-powered venture capital platform that autonomously evaluates early-stage startups for investment.

As Engineering Lead, I lead the technical team and own the full platform: a production multi-agent LLM system, 20+ microservices, ML prediction pipelines, and cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP.

Key achievements:
- Built a multi-agent AI system that analyses startups for investment decisions,
- Architected 3 frontend apps (Next.js/React), 6 backend services (NestJS/GraphQL), 6 Python ML services (FastAPI), and shared libraries
- Designed an analytics data warehouse with semantic search capabilities
- Led the product launch and CRM deal pipeline integration
- Significantly reduced cloud infrastructure costs through service migration and resource consolidation

### Engineering Lead @ Koble
Jan 2022 – Present | London Area, United Kingdom
Koble is the technology company behind Rule 30 — building the AI platform that powers autonomous startup evaluation for venture capital.

As Engineering Lead, I built the platform from scratch and grew the engineering team:
- Designed and implemented the full microservices architecture: NestJS backend services, Python ML services, and React/Next.js frontend applications
- Built the ML prediction pipeline that scores startups for investment potential
- Created data pipelines for founder and company intelligence gathering with multi-provider fallback
- Developed shared TypeScript and Python libraries used across all services
- Managed Terraform infrastructure (AWS EKS), Kubernetes deployments, and CI/CD pipelines across 4 environments
- Led sprint planning, architecture decisions, hiring, and technical strategy

### Senior Software Engineer @ Adaptavist
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | London, England, United Kingdom

### Software Engineer @ Adaptavist
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ American Express
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Burgess Hill, UK

### QA Engineer @ Mentor Graphics
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Altrincham, UK


## Education
### BSc Hons in Computer Science
The University of Manchester


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dragosciupureanu

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Last updated: 2026-04-05