Marcin Popescu

Overview

I started Dune Care to fix climate analytics for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Raised $35 million across 3 rounds. Grew the team to 52 people across 3 countries. Before that: Zalando and Meta. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

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Experience

1. Founder

   Nov 2025 - Present
   Dune Care · 11 mo · Full-time · Prague, Czechia
   • Signed 77 paying customers, 21 of them enterprises.
   • Raised $40 million across 2 rounds.
   • Previously built and sold a small climate analytics company.
2. Engineering Manager

   Aug 2022 - Nov 2025
   Zalando · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Prague, Czechia
   • Took payment success rates from 91.5% to 97.4%.
   • Shipped 8 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
3. Staff Android Engineer

   Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
   Meta · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Prague, Czechia
   • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 690ms to 75ms.
   • Grew the Android team from 6 to 14 engineers.
4. Director of Engineering

   Jun 2016 - Dec 2019
   Maersk · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Prague, Czechia
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 740ms to 126ms.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
   Revolut · 8 mo · Full-time · Prague, Czechia
   • Reduced cloud spend on web by 46% in two quarters.
   • Led the migration of 57 services to data.

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Education

1. Erasmus University Rotterdam

   MSc, Economics
   2017 - 2019
2. Bocconi University

   BSc, Economics
   2011 - 2014