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Adriana Galer Rotaru
Technical leader building technology for the physical world — agentic systems at Serval, scaling autonomous and healthtech companies, and helping founders mature their engineering organizations.
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Gender Identity: reflections on East vs West
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I grew up in Moldova, a small country in Eastern Europe situated at the intersection of two cultures: conservative and traditionalist Russian, and mildly-Westernized Romanian. To many people’s surprise, I speak Romanian, I watched Disney growing up, and, like many American teenagers, I was a big fan of The Wizards of Waverly Place, Phineas and Ferb and the Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Still, I was equally drawn to the intense and stoic nature of the Russian people, often indulging into Soviet war-themed movies, chanson and “blatnaya pesnya” (the Russian equivalent of the Western gangster rap), or even cold plunges, fishing, mud baths, and delicious pickled fish.
Adulthood: first (hot) takes
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Note: I wrote this piece in a spur of a moment while I was waiting for a friend at the Columbus Circle Mall, New York. I might sound entitled and judgemental, but I decided to not appease its scolding demeanor and leave these thoughts in their raw honest form. Re-reading them, reminds me just how much my views have changed over time.
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The secrets to building scalable and reliable autonomous technologies
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After 10 years of building autonomous technologies at the edge — from medical devices for diagnosis and prevention of sleep disorders, to automotive modeling of battery forecasting, to operational and delivery UAVs — I have witnessed teams and organizations struggle with the opposing forces of business scaling urges and the reliability needs of these technologies. Here are some of my takes on how to scale autonomous systems safely.
Trust technology
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Not blindly. But enough to let it operate in the real world.