Octavian Sima is a skilled technology professional with extensive experience in software engineering and data science. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Factory, Octavian focuses on AI infrastructure. Prior roles include Software Engineer at Opaque Systems, contributing to scalable confidential computing solutions, and Undergraduate Researcher at Berkeley RISE Lab, investigating privacy-preserving systems. Previous internships at Asana and SymphonyAI involved software development and advanced data processing techniques. Octavian also served as a Data Science Intern at Dascena, improving algorithmic performance for healthcare outcomes, and developed educational materials as a Senior Curriculum Developer at UC Berkeley. Octavian holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.