Ana Balica
Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAna Balica is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building robust Python-based web backends and elegant APIs, currently contributing at Meta from Seattle. She excels at taming complexity through consistent, testable code and has a track record of shipping production systems at both startups and large tech firms, including Amazon and Verve. An advocate for transparent teamwork, she proactively fosters thoughtful feedback, knowledge sharing, and team leadership in engineering environments. Her open-source roots include leading development and maintenance of the Systers Portal (a community platform started through Google Summer of Code), where she handled Django architecture, testing, and documentation. Comfortable across the stack, she pairs pragmatic engineering with strong communication skills and a knack for turning messy requirements into well-documented, maintainable APIs.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
College Diploma, Civil Engineering, College Diploma, Civil Engineering at Colegiul de Constructii din ChisinauBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Czech Technical University in PragueBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Engineer in Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Engineer in Information Technology at Technical University of Moldova"Ion Creanga" Lyceum
English, Romanian, Russian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
python10
django10
template-engine9
template-tags9
templater9
git9
css8
html8
ckeditor6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
anitab-org/portal
May 2014 - Oct 2016
THIS PROJECT IS ARCHIVED. Systers Portal for communities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:335 commits, 75 PRs, 136 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ana primarily focused on setting up and configuring the project, including setting up sphinx documentation, starting a Django project, and adding and configuring django-nose for testing. They implemented user group creation based on community names, along with adding allauth, crispy-forms, and django-ckeditor. The user also created the community and user app models and established the base template, including a social media button.
djangodjango-blogcommunitiesportaldjango-project
ana-balica/meow_letters_py
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:112 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
gamerusteducational-gamekivygame-development
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