The people behind BitUp.

Over ten years in IT, from local companies to the enterprise world, at an American Fortune 500 corporation. In all of them he found the same problem: organizations with technology bought correctly, but with no structure behind it. No written procedures, no processes that run the same way twice, nobody answering for the whole picture, and security postponed until "later."

He worked through system administration, infrastructure, and SLA support, then moved into information security and stayed there. He was part of the team that prepared the ISO 27001 audit: he wrote the documentation and the procedures, implemented controls and processes, and covered the continuity plans and the protection of workstations and servers. That is where he saw that order can be built, written down, and proven.

He founded BitUp in 2020, to bring that order to the scale of Romanian companies, without a corporation's apparatus. His goal now: for companies in Romania to reach the security standards their partners and clients abroad ask for, with processes, procedures, and digitization put in the order that makes sense for the business, not for a checkbox.

Petre is a penetration tester at NTT DATA, working in offensive security. His experience covers penetration testing of web applications and APIs, of network infrastructure and cloud environments, with a particular focus on IAM abuse and privilege escalation paths, exactly the areas real attackers hit first.

He has worked in an enterprise environment, for very large clients, and he knows what a penetration test done properly means: not just findings, but real business risk. On the Red Team side, he approaches every simulation as a real campaign, from recon and the first vulnerability exploited, through to domain compromise and the report that explains in plain terms how it happened.

What recommends him on client projects is that he covers the full cycle of an engagement: from the first conversation and defining the scope, through execution, final report, and retesting after remediation, so nothing is left open. He communicates clearly with everyone involved in a project, from technicians to management, and his coaching qualification shows in every presentation of results: technically exact, but understandable to any audience.

Samuel is an AI & Innovation Specialist passionate about exploring how emerging technologies can solve real-world problems. His work focuses on AI R&D, LLMs, agentic systems, and building practical AI solutions. He enjoys taking ideas from experimentation to real-world applications while continuously exploring new technologies and approaches. He is particularly interested in how AI can enhance cybersecurity, automation, and the way businesses operate. Samuel brings curiosity, technical expertise, and a passion for innovation to the team, helping turn ambitious ideas into reality.

A full stack developer, three years in the field, with experience built in a large industrial environment. Next.js and React on the front, NestJS and Python on the server, TypeScript and PostgreSQL for the rest. These are deliberate choices, so we can maintain what we build, not just ship it.

At BitUp he builds the applications clients commission and the integrations that connect the programs they already have. He starts from written requirements: what goes in, what comes out, who sees what, what happens at exceptions. Only then does he write code. That is why deliveries come without surprises, and why the application is still explainable a year later, when someone asks why it was done that way.