Robert Balaban
Lead Software Engineer, Data Platform
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolRobert Balaban is a Lead Data Engineer based in Bucharest with 11 years of experience building production-grade data platforms and real-time streaming pipelines. He specializes in Apache Flink, Kafka, Kubernetes and Iceberg, and has progressed from software engineering and QA roles to technical leadership at Transcenda after stints at IBM and freelance consulting. Robert focuses on solving complex scalability and latency challenges, turning exploratory data science prototypes into reliable streaming systems. He maintains a developer presence through GitHub and Kaggle, reflecting a hands-on approach to both engineering and applied analytics. A practical problem-solver, he often blends software engineering discipline with data science insight to deliver observable, operational data products.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science for Economics, Computer Science, Computer Science for Economics, Computer Science at Universitatea Româno-Americană din BucureștiIB Career-related Programme, Physics, IB Career-related Programme, Physics at International Baccalaureate
English, Romanian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (50)
react8
oauth8
nextjs8
authentication8
browser8
nodejs7
wordpress7
jwt7
auth7
compiler6
uikit6
opengl6
nuxt6
home-manager6
python6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
robalaban/config
Mar 2023 - Jul 2026
Nix system level config for MacOS ( Apple silicon )
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 40 pushes in 3 years 4 months
dotfileshome-managernixnix-darwin
chaos-monkeys/git-chaos
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:62 commits, 22 PRs, 116 pushes in 6 months
python
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