Stefan-victor Balea
Freelance Blockchain & Backend Engineer at VIBAST Solutions SRL
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolStefan-victor Balea is a freelance Blockchain and Backend Engineer with a decade of experience building production-grade Cosmos SDK blockchains and high-availability backend systems for commerce and data-heavy platforms. He implements L1 features, custom modules, DEX mechanics, IBC integrations and wallet signing flows while also delivering indexers, observability, and oracle feeds—typically coding in Go and deploying resilient services on Docker/AWS. His background spans large-scale e-commerce at eMAG to bespoke blockchain mainnet launches, giving him a rare combination of operational hardening, performance tuning, and pragmatic delivery across open-source ecosystems. Known for end-to-end ownership from discovery to production, he excels at distributed systems, reliability engineering, and practical tradeoffs under real-world constraints. Based in Bucharest, Romania, he is open to B2B, part-time, project, or consulting engagements focused on blockchain engineering. An often-overlooked strength is his full-stack fluency—bridging on-chain protocol work with off-chain infrastructure, monitoring and integration.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Liceu, Matematica - Informatica, Liceu, Matematica - Informatica at G.S.I. de Petrol, CampinaLicenta, Computer Science, Licenta, Computer Science at Universitatea „Titu Maiorescu”
English
Github Skills (70)
chain10
bundle10
exchange10
mining10
pool10
php10
stratum10
php-framework9
cosmos9
cryptocurrency9
cryptography9
blockchain9
ethereum9
java9
symfony-bundle9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bze-alphateam/bze
Dec 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:8 releases, 120 commits, 87 PRs in 1 year 1 month
bze-alphateam/BZE-Scripts
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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