Razvan Barbascu
Software Engineer at NEAR Protocol
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 (14)
nearprotocol10
webassembly10
rust10
near10
ethereum10
blockchain10
nodes9
documentation6
wasmer2
typescript2
javascript2
wasmtime2
wasi2
emscripten2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
VanBarbascu/nearcore
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
Reference client for NEAR Protocol
Contributions:307 pushes, 196 branches in 2 years 1 month
crStiv/nearcore
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Reference client for NEAR Protocol
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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