Vlad Balan
Senior Software Engineer at Sportin.io
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolVlad Balan is a Senior Full Stack Engineer and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building end-to-end SaaS, web, and mobile products from rapid MVPs to production systems. Based in Bucharest, he leads small high-output teams and focuses on pragmatic architecture, clean maintainable code, database optimization, and gamification—motivated by a personal interest in gamifying personal development. He founded Space Magic, a leading Meteor development agency, and co-founded Răgaz, a Romanian mental health app, plus LeetTrivia, an addictive interview-prep game that reached 300 users and a paying customer within days. Vlad combines product intuition with executional speed, often shipping custom solutions and proving traction quickly, and currently balances engineering leadership roles across Cognizant, Sportin.io, and his startups.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universitatea Tehnică de Construcții București
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Github Skills (97)
zero-configuration10
realtime10
microfrontend10
javascript10
react-component10
datepicker10
aframe10
inferno10
reactive-programming10
oculus10
build-system10
oculus-quest10
rpc10
nodejs10
meteor10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LightbulbMachine/houston
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:48 PRs, 49 pushes, 85 branches in 9 months
adminmeteorzerodjangoconfig
vladbalan/meteor-aframe
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 18 days
a-framewebvrmeteorframe
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