Mihai is a Senior Software Engineer at Google, based in Zurich. His tenure at Google started in San Francisco, in 2013. Since then, he worked at Google Search, YouTube and Google Assistant, building systems used by billions of users every day. Previously, he worked at Facebook, in New York City.

Mihai specializes in Artificial Intelligence and highly-scalable distributed systems. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Computer Science from the Politehnica University of Bucharest.

Born in Bucharest, Mihai moved to the UK for his graduate studies and has lived abroad ever since. He is passionate about mixed martial arts, chess and skiing.