Ciprian (Chip) Rarau

CTO/CPO
Mentorly
Jan 2025 - Present

I lead all things tech at Mentorly, a mentorship platform helping enterprises circulate knowledge internally. I manage the platform end to end—backend, infrastructure, AI systems, and internal tools—while staying hands-on in product, sales, and marketing. From sentiment analysis to LLM-powered mentor matching, I bring speed and stability to a growing system that's delivering real value. I don't just build the tech—I help drive the business.

Technical Advisor
Eli Health
Apr 2025 - Present

Leading the tech strategy and execution at Eli, a fast-paced health tech startup measuring hormonal biomarkers like cortisol and progesterone. I architect and maintain the mobile backend infrastructure, ensuring secure handling of personal health data. My role spans product development, hands-on coding, cross-functional leadership, and rapid iteration cycles. I bring deep technical and operational experience to early-stage ventures—especially where speed, trust, and precision matter.

Co-Founder
WeHappers
Jan 2024 - Present

Our mission: Reshaping wealth distribution to spark global happiness. Our action: Combining Investment ($) and Intelligence (i) on tech initiatives that enable wealth sharing while providing Happiness Experience. Our objective: Positively impact (>0) the level of happiness (Δh) of the people (p). Focus areas: Efficient engineering, Incubating positive initiatives, Platform building for NPOs' actions, Measuring Happiness.

CTO/CPO, Co-Founder
WISK.ai
2016 - Jan 2025

WISK is a next-level food & beverage intelligence platform built for the hospitality industry—serving restaurants, bars, hotels, and distributors across multiple countries. With an extraordinary team, I built WISK from the ground up into a robust, real-time system that powers inventory, ordering, costing, and analytics for thousands of venues. It's modular, secure, and built on scalable microservices architecture. We went from zero revenue to a multi-million dollar business, delivering real value to restaurateurs who needed better tools to run their operations.

Advisor
Alvéole
Jan 2023 - May 2024

Provided strategic technical guidance for Alvéole's urban beekeeping platform. Skills: Clean Coding, Systems Design, Database Systems, Problem Solving, Software Quality, Communication, Architecture Reviews, Design Patterns.

CTO Advisor
XpertSea
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022

Assured the transition of technical leadership. Interviewed and hired the full-time CTO, Mohamed Mehdi, who became my friend and advisor as well. In the leadership team I assured the technical voice. Worked with the existing team on key deliverable: react native development, data synchronization, offline support, development hiring. Key technologies: AWS, NodeJS, Python, Ansible, Terraform, TypeScript/JavaScript, React JS/Native, GitLab/GitHub.

Head Of Mobile
Eastern Bank
2015 - 2016

I led the mobile development for the Eastern Bank mobile app from the start of the implementation. I worked closely with the API teams to make the integration. Interacted with the awesome Eastern Bank internal design team to have a smooth user experience. During this time the mobile team also passed a PWC full audit for security.

Founder
IdeaPlaces
2014 - 2016

IdeaPlaces - Map Your Dropbox, Evernote and Photos. IdeaPlaces is the first Evernote&Dropbox app designed for in field professionals and travellers to organize their notes and pictures by location. IdeaPlaces is the evolution in note taking by helping users pin point their notes on a map for greater accuracy, improved collaboration and ultimately drive productivity. Professionals and travellers now have a simple and efficient tool to keep track of their notes and pictures by location on a map. IdeaPlaces provides independent workers to small-medium businesses with their location-based notes.

Bachelor in Computer Science Engineering
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1998 - 2003