Catalin Balan
Senior Software Engineer at vCluster
Bad Kissingen, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolCatalin Balan is a senior software engineer with over 20 years of experience building and operating high-availability systems, and a dozen years focused on cloud-native platforms and developer productivity. He combines deep expertise in Golang and Ruby with hands-on operational experience across AWS and Kubernetes, crafting platform-agnostic deployment solutions and self-service pipelines that cut cycle times from weeks to under an hour. At Workday he led initiatives that turned months-long delivery processes into days, ran Kubernetes education programs, and championed observability and secrets management. Now at vCluster, he continues to blend developer experience, scalability and resilience work for global operations. Based in Bad Kissingen, Germany, Catalin pairs pragmatic engineering with a continuous-improvement mindset and a track record of enabling teams to own their production lifecycle.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
English, Romanian
Github Skills (11)
nodes9
erlang8
policies8
chef-infra7
metadata7
k8s5
php4
kubernetes4
sdk4
aws3
aws-sdk2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cbalan/aws-swf-fluent-php
Jul 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:45 commits in 8 months
phpaws-sdk-phpaws-sdksdkglue-code
cbalan/k101
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Kubernetes introduction workshop
Contributions:27 commits, 32 PRs, 59 pushes in 19 days
k8skubernetesworkshop
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