Vlad Balan
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Manhattan Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Balan is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently working on search box autocompletions at Google. His background spans low-latency, high-throughput services—from a globally-replicated key-value store handling 2M QPS for ad bidding to large-scale video processing and backend services for YouTube subscriptions. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from USC and began his career with kernel and software-defined radio work, giving him deep systems and networking intuition that informs his cloud-scale designs. Based in Manhattan Beach, Vlad is skilled at bridging research-driven approaches with production engineering to deliver resilient, performant infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Jacobs University Bremen
Github Skills (11)
storage10
persistent10
embeddable10
database10
key-value-store9
storage-engine9
persistent-storage9
key-value-database9
bigtable8
key-value8
lsm-tree8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
vladb38/rocksdb_protobuf
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:20 commits, 1 push in 2 months
vladb38/process_migration
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 1 day
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