Rares Istoc
Head Of Engineering at ML Vanguards
Timișoara, Romania
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Top SchoolRares Istoc is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with a decade of experience building scalable, cloud-native and IoT systems across e‑commerce, MedTech, SaaS and telematics. Currently serving as Head of Engineering at Narrio.app while holding CTO and co‑founder roles, he combines hands‑on development in Python, Go and TypeScript with systems thinking across OS, networks and architecture to deliver end‑to‑end products. He has led multi‑tenant SaaS, high‑throughput vehicle ingestion pipelines and DICOM‑based medical integrations, often owning cloud infra design (AWS, Terraform) and CI/CD at scale. Known for deep curiosity, Rares studies computer science fundamentals (from architecture to PL analysis) to design optimal, auditable solutions rather than quick fixes. He’s actively expanding into Rust and MLOps, bringing both startup grit and enterprise rigor from roles at GuidefAI, SafeFleet and AIMINDED. Based in Timișoara, Romania, he blends product-minded engineering with a track record of shipping complex systems to international markets.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universitatea de Vest din TimișoaraComputers and Information Technology, Computers and Information Technology at Politehnica University of Timisoara
English, Romanian
Github Skills (46)
comet-ml10
qdrant10
pulumi10
docker9
aws9
generative-ai8
large-language-models8
infrastructure-as-code7
coverage7
llmops7
mlops7
cryptocurrency6
ccxt6
bitcoin6
bybit5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SoftMandar/JazzBoutique
Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:101 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
frisbee-cdn/frisbee-daemon
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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