Our People
Virgil Bistriceanu
President & CTO
Virgil is an experienced technology leader who has spent over two decades building, scaling, and fixing technology organizations. He served as CTO at Sift Healthcare ↗ (co-founder), Basis ↗ (formerly Centro), MyPoints.com (co-founder).
At United Airlines he led a software development team for united.com and its Internet Booking Engine—a $20M+ project delivered while the airline was in Chapter 11.
Virgil also served as Senior Advisor and Board Member at Penta Technologies ↗, where he drove novel product ideas leveraging the company's deep ERP expertise for Specialty Contractors. Too few companies have a technology-informed voice at the board level—most would benefit from one.
Since founding theSleepless in 2009, Virgil has focused on the consulting areas where he has the deepest hands-on experience: advising startups, remediating technology dysfunction, software development and testing, cloud infrastructure, M&A technology due diligence, data engineering, and information security assessments.
Recent Projects
Goal Builder — A B2C web application for independent financial advisors, integrating life insurance quotes from multiple carriers.
Eleven36 ↗ — M&A due diligence, roadmap development, data curation, and deployment automation for a small-business solution to foodservice equipment and supplies distribution.
ELVIS — A data science application that predicts project hours needed for reserve studies.
Onsite — A native iOS application replacement for pen and paper in the reserve studies business.
Teaching
Virgil has been an Instructor at the Illinois Institute of Technology ↗ since 1994, teaching Information Security, Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Design and Programming, and Computer Architecture.
Education & Credentials
MS Electrical Engineering, Polytehnica University of Bucharest.
Ph.D. studies in Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology ↗.
Holder of US Patent 7,240,022 ↗ (Demographic Information Gathering and Incentive Award System).