Bogdan Burlacu
Senior Software Engineer at Nearform
Iași, Romania
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBogdan Burlacu is a Senior Software Engineer and PhD in Computer Science with 14+ years of experience building machine learning and optimization systems, specializing in symbolic regression and physically-plausible modeling. He combines rigorous theoretical foundations in algorithms with hands-on C++ software development, shipping research-grade toolkits such as Operon, PyOperon, VStat and contributions to HeuristicLab. As a former professor and long-time research associate, he bridges academic research and production software, turning complex models into efficient, maintainable code. Based in Iași, Romania, he enjoys puzzles and elegant engineering solutions, often focusing on interpretability and system identification in supervised learning. A less obvious strength is his background in systems administration, which gives him practical expertise in deploying and operationalizing research software.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 1, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 1 at Johannes Kepler Universität LinzMSc, Computer and System Engineering, MSc, Computer and System Engineering at Universitatea Tehnică „Gh. Asachi” din Iași
English, German, Romanian
Stackoverflow
485reputation
15kreached
9answers
10questions
Github Skills (177)
parallel10
evolutionary10
python10
nix10
multithreading10
multidimensional-arrays10
cmake10
multi-objective-optimization10
cpp10
optimization10
genetic-algorithm10
system-programming10
nixos10
linux10
genetic10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
foolnotion/nur-pkg
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:25 PRs, 365 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 5 months
nixosnix-overlayoverlay
foolnotion/advent-of-code
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:124 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.