Razvan Barbascu
Software Engineer at IP Workshop
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRazvan Barbascu is a software engineer based in London with three years of industry experience building reliable systems across embedded, backend, and production engineering roles. He has shipped firmware and platform improvements at Fitbit that cut update sizes by over 85% and slashed on-device install times from 10 minutes to under one, and later supported large-scale infrastructure and reliability at Meta before moving into blockchain engineering at NEAR Protocol. His background blends low-level C/C++ embedded work, Python automation and tooling, and backend services, plus hands-on teaching and mentoring experience from university and training roles. Comfortable bridging hardware-to-cloud workflows, he brings a proven track record of pragmatic optimizations that materially improve product performance and observability.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
"Traian" Theoretical highschool of ConstantaPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
English, Romanian
Github Skills (13)
rust10
near10
webassembly10
blockchain10
nearprotocol10
nodes9
documentation8
emscripten1
python-bindings1
wasi1
rpc1
public-key1
ed255191
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
VanBarbascu/nearcore
Mar 2023 - May 2026
Reference client for NEAR Protocol
Contributions:1 PR, 435 pushes, 294 branches in 3 years 2 months
nearprotocol
crStiv/nearcore
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Reference client for NEAR Protocol
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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