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Lucian Gruia

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Head of Engineering (Romania 🇷🇴) at Ciklum
📍 Bucharest Metropolitan Area, Romania

Lucian Gruia is the Head of Engineering for Ciklum in Romania, a Principal Technology Lead for Data & AI with over 13 years of experience in Telecom, Fintech, and Aerospace. A PhD researcher, people who have worked with him often describe him as passionate, professional, skilled, and an exceptional mentor.

Outside of his professional life, Lucian considers travel to be a lifestyle, enjoys organizing trips, and has co-founded travel startups. His personal interests are diverse, including geography, astronomy, chess, and numismatics (coin collecting). He is also passionate about sociology and community building.

Since childhood, Lucian has dreamed of space exploration, a passion that led him to work in the aerospace industry and even have a space-themed wedding.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Head of Engineering (Romania 🇷🇴)
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Bucharest Metropolitan Area, Romania
Personality Overview

How Lucian shows up

Thorough Evaluator
Quality Focused
Fast But Analytical

They focus on the results, but can still be quite procedural and analytical about how to get there They are not very likely to become strong advocates of your product or service They have a unique set of diverse traits where they are decisive and methodical but can sometimes be extra cautious and skeptical

Priorities

Topics Lucian cares about

Generative AI
He is a GenAI Mentor, leads the AI community at his company, and frequently speaks at conferences about building conversational AI agents and large language models.
AI in Aerospace
He has architected software for top global airlines and recently delivered a technical talk for a European Space Agency (ESA) project, combining his core professional and personal interests.
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Career

Work history

2-2025
Head of Engineering (Romania 🇷🇴)
Ciklum
11-2023
Principal Data & AI Tech Lead
Ciklum
9-2022 - 11-2023
Principal Java Developer | Software Architect
Ciklum
10-2019 - 8-2022
Java Technical Lead
Ciklum
11-2023
Technical Mentor & Trainer (AI/ML, Google Stack)
Digital Stack
In the press

Media appearances

How AI is transforming the Software Development Life Cycle. Featured in YouTube
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Lucian Gruia - Principal AI Tech Lead/Ciklum - DevTalks Romania. Featured in DevTalks Romania
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Education
4-2023 - 7-2026
PhD Researcher
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
2012 - 2014
Master’s Degree
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology
2008 - 2012
Engineer’s Degree
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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