Mircea Pașoi

Pronounced Meer-cha

build tech startups

lead engineering teams

invest in startups

build tech startups

I co-founded and sold multiple startups. I also built engineering teams in social (Clubhouse & Twitter) and in crypto (Coinbase & Novi). Currently working on something new.

Writing

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How I Discovered I Have Autism

Oct 21, 2023

Pronouncing Mircea Pașoi: a guide for non-Romanians

May 6, 2014

Life after programming competitions

Feb 6, 2012

Startups

Serene

(acquired by Brain Co)

2023 – 2024

Memo.AI

(acquired by Coinbase)

2015 – 2018

Summify

(acquired by Twitter)

2010 – 2012

Companies

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Head of Engineering @ Clubhouse

Built out a remote-first engineering organization from ~15 engineers to 40+ across iOS, Android, Web, Backend, Discovery/ML, Platform and Infrastructure

2021-2023

Head of Identity Engineering @ Coinbase

Started and grew the Identity team from 1 engineer to 20+ person full-stack org (mobile, web, backend). Shipped features that added +$40M additional revenue and +500K additional users and improved security for billions of dollars of assets. Also drove Decentralized Identity research and acquisition integration.

2018-2020

Sr. Engineering Manager @ Twitter

Summify was acquired by Twitter and repurposed as Twitter Email Digest, which added 30M MAU in 2012-2013 (directly attributed to Email Digest). Managed an organization of 30+ engineers, sourced and recruited 20+ engineers from personal network.

2012-2014

Other Pages

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About Me

Family

Angel Investing