Andrei Balaban
Senior Software Engineer at Bolt
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrei Balaban is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bucharest with six years focused on backend systems for consumer products, specializing in search, information retrieval, and real-time scaling. At Bolt he led multi-quarter search and places initiatives that materially improved precision, cut latency in half, and unlocked millions in GMV while building a shared Search & Discovery Platform and geo-search capabilities. He blends hands-on engineering (Node.js/TypeScript, Elasticsearch, Spark, Python) with close collaboration with data science to productionize models and define experimentation tooling that surfaces user dissatisfaction before A/B tests. His background ranges from embedded networking and mobile security to building internal POI ingestion and address interpolation systems that reduced location errors by an order of magnitude. Andrei is known for mentoring engineers and shaping strong technical culture while tackling low-latency, high-throughput problems across markets.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
English, French, German, Romanian
Github Skills (6)
geocoding10
pelias10
geocoder10
http9
admin3
vue2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bolteu/pelias-api
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
HTTP API for Pelias Geocoder
Contributions:4 reviews, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 2 months
apipythonh3geocoderpelias
andreibalaban/api
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
HTTP API for Pelias Geocoder
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 4 branches in 10 months
apipythonh3geocoderpelias
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