Marc Balaban
Sr. Software Engineer at Uber
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc Balaban is a senior software engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building full-stack, user-focused products and production systems. He combines front-end expertise in React/Redux and data visualization with back-end skills in Node/Express—contributing to notable projects like HeavyDB by adding robust multi-file upload and server file-management features. At OmniSci he helped design core product UX, led frontend teams, open-sourced visualization libraries, and later translated engineering into revenue as a Partner Engineer where he exceeded quota. He also founded and shipped high-traffic consumer projects (Pixelthoughts, WriteTheScene) that demonstrated product instincts, growth metrics, and real-world impact including academic study usage. Known for pairing product-minded thinking with hands-on implementation, he thrives on complex problems that span UI, servers, and developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
CompTIAToronto Metropolitan University
Stackoverflow
75reputation
5kreached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
expressjs10
file-upload10
nodejs10
file-management9
cors9
html6
ruby-on-rails6
chat6
jquery6
jquery-select26
publish-subscribe6
twitter-bootstrap6
faye6
cordova6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
heavyai/heavydb
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
HeavyDB (formerly OmniSciDB)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 17 days
Contributions summary:Marc focused on developing a node server with multiple file upload capabilities. Their contributions include adding file upload functionality, creating session-based folder creation, and responding with the file location. Furthermore, the user implemented static asset serving from the build/frontend directory and created a function to delete uploaded folders recursively, enhancing the server's file management capabilities. They demonstrated expertise in server-side JavaScript with Express.js, Multer for file handling, and CORS for cross-origin requests.
cudareal-timevisualizationgpuheavyai
Swift-Potato/loopjam
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:71 PRs, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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