Technical co-founder looking to partner up — 15+ years in telecom-cloud-security, now building end-to-end with AI

Technical co-founder looking to partner up — 15+ years in telecom/cloud/security, now building end-to-end with AI

Hi Indie Hackers,

I'm Liviu, based in Bucharest, Romania. I'm looking to meet someone I might eventually build a company with.

I've had the entrepreneurial itch for probably 10–15 years, but if I'm being realistic about what happened, I kept gravitating toward the technical side.

I spent most of my free time learning new technologies, experimenting, and getting better at engineering. That also kept pushing my career forward.

My background went roughly:

Telecommunications and networking
DevOps / SRE
Cloud infrastructure
Kubernetes / platform engineering
DevSecOps and cloud security
Production operations and reliability

So traditionally I've been the telecom / cloud / infrastructure / operations / security guy.

Software product development wasn't my professional background.

What changed

Around seven months ago I started building an open-source project called LoopTroop.

It started as an experiment and gradually became a substantial full-stack application for orchestrating AI-assisted software development.

While building it, I ended up working across much more of the product lifecycle than I had before:

Product requirements and workflows
Architecture
Frontend and backend development
Data and persistence
AI/LLM orchestration
Testing and code review
Git workflows
Documentation
Infrastructure
Security and operations

I use AI agents heavily, but I'm the one defining the work, steering the implementation, reviewing the output, and verifying the result.

I'm not claiming that seven months of AI-assisted development suddenly gives me 10 years of professional software development experience.

It doesn't.

What has changed is how much of a product I can personally own.

I already had the infrastructure, production, reliability, security and cloud side. Now I can go much further into actually building the product as well.

And I discovered that I really enjoy it.

Why I'm here

Building LoopTroop brought back that old interest in entrepreneurship that I'd mostly pushed aside while focusing on my technical career.

So I'm putting myself out there and seeing who I meet.

I'm interested in joining the right project as a technical co-founder, or potentially taking a founding CTO role where that makes sense.

I'm not looking for freelance or agency work.

What I bring

My strongest traditional areas are:

Cloud and infrastructure
Security
DevOps / SRE / platform engineering
Kubernetes and containers
Architecture and production operations
Reliability and observability
Telecommunications and networking

Combined with AI-assisted product development, I'm now comfortable prototyping, building, deploying, operating and securing a product from the early stages.

I'm probably most useful in a small founding team where I can take broad ownership rather than staying inside one narrow engineering function.

Who I'd like to meet

I think I'd complement someone who is stronger on the commercial side than I am.

Maybe you have:

Deep knowledge of a particular industry or problem
Access to potential customers
Sales or business-development experience
Strong product insight
Distribution or marketing experience
Previous founder experience

I'm much more interested in:

"I've worked in this industry for years, this problem keeps coming up, I've spoken to potential customers, and here's what I've learned."

than:

"I have an idea for an app and need someone technical to build it."

You don't need to have everything figured out. I certainly don't.

But there should be something behind the idea.

What I'm interested in

I'm fairly open, but there are some areas where my background could be especially useful:

AI products
B2B / enterprise software
Cybersecurity
Developer tools
Cloud / infrastructure
Telecommunications
Automation

That said, I'd rather work on an unglamorous problem with real customers than force myself into an AI startup just because AI is hot.

Current situation

I'm currently employed full-time.

I'm not planning to quit my job after one interesting conversation.

I'd rather meet someone, understand the problem, see how we think together, and ideally build or validate something together before either of us makes a major commitment.

If we find a strong fit and enough conviction around what we're building, I'm open to transitioning full-time.

I'm also open geographically. Europe is obviously easiest, but I'm happy to talk with founders in the US or Asia if the working setup makes sense.