# David Marin

> Full-stack product engineer, open to founding or senior product engineer roles. Eight years building products end to end: founder of Sussur (AI sales coach for Mac) and Basetool Labs, co-author of the open-source Rails framework Avo, early engineer at YC-backed Waydev (W21), product engineer at The Social Cat. Based in Constanța, Romania.

## Availability

- Status: Open to work, available now
- Roles: Founding product engineer, Senior product engineer
- Focus: AI, Developer tools, B2B SaaS
- Setup: Remote from Constanța (EET, UTC+2/+3), overlapping US East Coast mornings
- Contact: david@basetool.ai
- Book a call: https://calendly.com/david-basetool
- CV: https://david-marin.dev/david-marin-cv.pdf

## Identity

- Name: David Marin (Marin Mihai David)
- Role: Full-stack product engineer, founder
- Location: Constanța, Romania (EET, UTC+2/+3)
- Languages: Romanian (native), English (C2), German (B2), Dutch (A2)
- Stack: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Electron, LLM apps
- Focus: AI-native engineering, product engineering, founding engineering

## Pages

- [Home](https://david-marin.dev/): Availability, career history, ventures, writing, press, and contact.
- [Research and public work](https://david-marin.dev/research): Writing, talks, publication, open source, GitHub, and MCP setup.
- [CV (PDF)](https://david-marin.dev/david-marin-cv.pdf)
- [Sitemap](https://david-marin.dev/sitemap.xml)

## MCP server

- URL: https://david-marin.dev/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no auth, read-only)
- Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http --scope user david-marin https://david-marin.dev/mcp
- Tools: get_profile, get_contact, list_ventures
- Setup for other clients: https://david-marin.dev/research#machine-readable

## Experience

- Sussur (Jan 2026 to Sep 2026): Founder. AI sales coach for macOS, built solo in about three months. 8 signed LOIs, 96 founding-cohort members. Stepped back when funding didn't come together; the app is still live.
- Basetool Labs (2025 to present): Founder of a small contracting company building MVPs and websites for local businesses.
- The Social Cat (Apr 2023 to Dec 2025): Product Engineer. Grew from about 15K to 150K+ users; also built Clip (useclip.com).
- Oceaneering (Aug 2022 to May 2023): Software Engineer on OceanSMART, a container-shipping ERP.
- Waydev, YC W21 (Oct 2021 to Aug 2022): Software Engineer on engineering-analytics dashboards.
- Software Development Academy (Jan 2022 to Apr 2025): Part-time JavaScript trainer.
- Basetool (Jul 2021 to Jan 2022): Co-founder of an open-source internal tool framework; YC interview for W22.
- Avo (May 2020 to Aug 2021): Co-founder of an open-source Rails admin framework, 2M+ downloads; YC interview for S21.

## Recognition

- Best Paper Award, 31st Twente Student Conference on IT (2019)
- IEEE SMC 2020 publication
- Ironman finisher

## Education

- Executive MBA, SP Jain London School of Management (2026 to 2028, in progress)
- BSc Technical Computer Science, University of Twente (2016 to 2019)

## External

- Blog: https://basetool.ai/en/blog
- GitHub: https://github.com/mihaimdm22
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marinmihaidavid/
- X: https://x.com/mihaimdm
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/__ddxm/

## Contact

- Email: david@basetool.ai
- Book a call: https://calendly.com/david-basetool