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Hello, I’m Iulia Baltoi.

I’m a founder, engineer and creative. I’m curious about how we can use technology to understand the world a little better and take better care of it.

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Experience

  1. Robot Dreams Studio

    Founder & advisor

    2025 — present

  2. X

    Staff software engineer

    2022–2024

  3. Twitter

    Tech lead, iOS engineering

    2018–2022

Speaking & awards

  1. TECH(K)NOW Day

    Speaker · London

    I spoke about finding my way around Twitter’s codebase in How to Dive into 5 Million Lines of Code… and Keep Your Sanity.

  2. NASA Space Apps Challenge

    Local People’s Choice Award · London

    My team, Renew, helped people find sustainable shops, cafés, and restaurants.

Education

  1. Master’s in Software Engineering

    University of Bucharest

    My thesis explored pathfinding in game AI, focusing on how characters find efficient routes through a virtual world.

    2011 — 2013

  2. Bachelor’s in Software Engineering

    Babeș-Bolyai University

    My thesis explored voice recognition in the frequency domain. I also co-authored a paper on identifying speakers from their voices.

    2008 — 2011

  3. National computer science competition

    I built a chess game with a computer opponent that used AI to choose its moves.

    High school

Robot Dreams Studio.

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I named the studio after Robot Dreams, a collection of stories by Isaac Asimov, one of my favourite writers. I love the idea of a machine doing something as human as dreaming.

I believe in the magic of technology. I started the studio to explore how AI and other technologies can serve humanity.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Arthur C. Clarke, Third Law

Advisory

Working with founders.

I help founders set the technical direction for their products, bring AI agents into everyday workflows, and build engineering teams they can trust with the hard problems.

Get in touch

Writing.

mixtapes from earth

On my Substack, I write about the move from engineer to founder and what I’m learning as I build Robot Dreams Studio.

Inspiration.

I think you can get to know someone by what moves them. These are a few things that have stayed with me.