Structural Engineer Becomes AI Cowboy to Survive the Wild West of Code

KEY POINTS

•Georgian Tutuianu transitioned from structural engineering to AI engineering at HubSpot after earning a master's in computer science from Northeastern University.
•Starting as a software engineer in a 2021 startup, he focused on helping marketers scale AI tools that improve user experience and team dopamine hits.
•To secure his AI job, he showcased a tailored résumé section of relevant side projects, including an AI that drafts meticulous code documentation.

Georgian Tutuianu, 36, swapped blueprints for bytes by leaving structural engineering to wrestle AI at HubSpot in Boston. He mastered machine learning by going back to Northeastern, proving that when life gives you strange tech curves, you get a master’s in computer science instead of therapy. Starting software engineering in a 2021 startup, he soon branded himself HubSpot’s AI wrangler—helping marketers rope dopamine hits by scaling with AI. His secret weapon? A résumé that’s basically a portfolio of AI side hustles trimmed to impress and an AI helper that writes his excruciatingly tedious code documentation. Interviews skip algorithms to simply ask if he can ‘build what we need’—because in AI's Wild West, swagger beats theory every time.