An engineer who became an owner.
MGSTAKING is a founder-led practice. When you work with it, you work with Marius Grigoraș directly.
Direct access. No handoff to a junior team.
I started in 2010 writing board support packages, bring-up code and debugger features for new processors at Freescale, later NXP. Over eleven years there I moved from low-level embedded work to leading the EMEA systems-engineering security team for the i.MX product line, working with customers on how to build secure devices.
In 2021 I founded MGSTAKING to operate blockchain infrastructure, and in 2022 xAudits, a smart-contract security firm. Those years taught me what an employer cannot: payroll, customers, uptime with nobody else on call, and the commercial consequence of every technical choice.
Since 2026 I have been co-founder and CTO of SyndiFi, a commercial real-estate crowdfunding business, responsible for product, architecture, delivery and infrastructure.
MGSTAKING is where that experience is available to others: a small number of advisory and engineering engagements each year, taken on personally. I use AI-assisted engineering extensively, which is why one senior person can now deliver what used to need a team. The judgment, the review and the responsibility stay human.
Fifteen years, in order.
- 2026 - nowCo-founder & CTO / SyndiFiFounder
Compliant financial infrastructure for syndicated commercial real-estate investing.
- 2022 - nowFounder / xAuditsFounder
Smart-contract and protocol security audits for Solidity and Rust.
- 2021 - nowFounder / MGSTAKINGFounder
Started as a blockchain infrastructure operator; today technology advisory, engineering and own-capital investments.
- 2017 - 2021Senior Tech Lead, Security / NXPEmployment
Led the EMEA systems-engineering security team for i.MX; security applications and customer architectures.
- 2010 - 2017Software & Application Engineer / Freescale / NXPEmployment
Board support packages, u-boot, Linux, debug tooling for PowerPC and Layerscape networking processors.
- Studied at Politehnica University of Bucharest.
- Taught parallel and distributed algorithms at the Military Technical Academy, Bucharest.
- Jury member at Innovation Labs Romania.
What to expect.
One senior person
No account managers and no handoff. This also means capacity is limited, and I will say so when it is.
Plain language
Trade-offs explained in terms of money, time and risk. Technical detail when you want it, not as a smokescreen.
Written down
Decisions, architecture and runbooks are documented, so you are never dependent on me.
Honest scope
If the right answer is "do nothing" or "buy the off-the-shelf product", that is what you will hear.
Company
MGSTAKING SRL
CUI 45605088
Reg. Com. J2022002255408
EUID ROONRC.J2022002255408
Aleea Bistra 1, Sector 6, 061545 Bucharest, Romania
Tell me what you are deciding.
A first conversation is about fit: your situation, what a good outcome looks like, and whether I am the right person to help.