Bogdan Vancea
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Top SchoolBogdan Vancea is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Cluj-Napoca with 13 years of experience building scalable, data-driven systems across cloud and enterprise products. At Microsoft he has led teams across Dynamics 365 and Azure Core, shipping GenAI chat experiences, driving Spark/HDInsight upgrades that saved millions annually, and shepherding performance and multitenancy improvements for large customers. He combines deep technical breadth—from Java/C++/Python and distributed databases to frontend frameworks like TypeScript and React—with hands-on leadership across full-stack, big data, and information retrieval problems. A master’s graduate from ETH Zurich, he has a longstanding interest in data mining, machine learning, search, and open-source tooling that informs pragmatic architecture decisions. Colleagues rely on him as both an engineering lead and customer-facing technical liaison capable of turning complex requirements into reliable, scalable services. Less obvious: his background spans academic projects (DBLP visualization at ETH) to enterprise integrations (Liferay/Hybris and Solr-based storage), giving him rare fluency between research prototypes and production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichBaccalaureate, Mathematics and Informatics, Baccalaureate, Mathematics and Informatics at Petru Maior High School, Ocna MuresBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Universitatea Tehnica Cluj Napoca
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Github Skills (60)
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microsoft9
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javascript9
visualization9
visual-studio-code9
charting9
vscode-extension9
charts9
typescript9
quadtree9
visualizations9
visual-studio9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bvancea/Dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 month
bvancea/critbit
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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