George Bals
DevOps Engineer at Intel Corporation
Timișoara, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Bals is a DevOps Engineer based in Timișoara, Romania, with four years of experience building and maintaining infrastructure at Intel after an early stint as a junior programmer at Continental. He is an advocate for open source and daily-drives NixOS and NeoVim, reflecting a configuration-as-code mindset and a focus on reproducible, developer-friendly environments. At Intel he has progressed from DevOps to a more senior engineering role, applying systems engineering foundations from his degree at Politehnica University of Timișoara to production-scale workflows. George combines practical automation skills with a curiosity for exploring diverse software tools and contributing back to the community. Outside of work he pursues wide-ranging intellectual interests—fiction and philosophy—and stays active with football and gaming, which help him balance analytical problem solving with creative thinking. This blend of pragmatic infrastructure expertise and a habit of experimenting with unconventional tooling makes him effective at simplifying complex deployment and developer experience challenges.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Mathematics, High School Diploma, Mathematics at Colegiul Național Avram Iancu ȘteiBachelor's degree, System Engineering, Bachelor's degree, System Engineering at Politehnica University of Timisoara
Github Skills (124)
to-do10
kitty10
modular10
linux10
nix-flake10
taskbar10
archlinux10
neofetch10
shell10
arch10
installer10
neovim-plugin10
zsh10
statusbar10
neovim10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Balssh/nixpkgs
Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
Nix Packages collection & NixOS
Contributions:48 pushes, 2 branches in 24 days
Balssh/hyprdots_balssh
Sep 2023 - Nov 2023
// Aesthetic, dynamic and minimal dots for Arch hyprland - forked from prasanthrangan
Contributions:26 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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