Vlad Cealicu
Founder at LocalGhost.ai
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Cealicu is a founder and seasoned software leader with over a decade building large-scale, high-throughput systems—most notably growing CryptoCompare/CCData from a two-person startup to a 70+ team and the largest digital-asset data provider. He architected and personally wrote the early backend, data pipelines and API that now handles 50,000 requests/second and tens of billions of requests per month, and led the company’s pivot from ad-driven to subscription data revenue. A full-stack engineer with deep cloud and real-time streaming expertise (Node.js, Postgres, Redis, WebSockets, Azure), he also has hands-on experience automating deployments, monitoring and release processes. Now shifting focus, he’s founding LocalGhost.ai to bring privacy-first, local-only AI inference and data ownership to users—an intentional reversal of his cloud-era experience. His career blends entrepreneurial scale-up execution with a practical commitment to privacy architecture and open-source principles.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc with Distinction, Computing, MSc with Distinction, Computing at Canterbury Christ Church UniversityBSc (Honours), Computers and information technology; Computers (in English language), BSc (Honours), Computers and information technology; Computers (in English language) at Facultatea de Economie si Administrarea Afacerilor
English, Romanian, French, Italian
Github Skills (60)
analytics-tracking10
bitcoin9
blockchain9
ethereum9
management9
tax9
builtwith8
accounting8
analytics8
cryptocurrencies8
user-authentication7
privacy7
nodejs-client7
cryptocurrency6
api6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vcealicu/melonport-price-feed
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 months
cryptocomparecryptocurrencyfeed
vcealicu/artblocks-nft
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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