Iulian Balan
Technical Lead at Winnow
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolIulian Balan is a Technical Lead with 11 years of experience designing and delivering high-performance backend and microservices systems, currently based in Cluj-Napoca. He combines deep Java and Node.js expertise with cloud-native deployment practices (Kubernetes, GCP, AWS) to build resilient, low-latency platforms—from global distributed printing systems to public e-commerce APIs. A strong advocate for performance, test-driven development and observability, he’s led projects that integrate messaging (MQTT, Kafka, pub/sub), caching and advanced CI/CD workflows to meet strict SLAs. Beyond coding, he has a track record of mentoring engineers, growing technical communities, and running onboarding and career-planning 1:1s for dozens of teammates. Pragmatic and curious, Iulian pairs hands-on implementation skills with strategic architecture decisions to turn complex requirements into reliable production services.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Brescia
Romanian, Italian, EnglishGithub contributions (3)
iulianbalan/directory-observer
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:19 commits in 11 months
Verigreen/agm-github-test
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:11 comments, 26 issues in 1 month
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