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Victor Balan

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

13+ years building products across the full stack — from live TV broadcast tools to blockchain wallets and decentralized exchanges to price aggregators. Currently exploring how AI agents can make legacy codebases easier to work with.

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Experience

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Social News Desk

Building tools for newsrooms to manage and broadcast social media content directly on live television. Working through Toptal as a freelance fullstack developer.

  • Built a live social-media-to-broadcast application that lets TV presenters configure layouts and interact with social posts in real time on air
  • Built a content scheduling platform with a responsive drag-and-drop calendar, handling 100+ social accounts and 2,000+ concurrent posts
  • Led the full migration of the front-end codebase from AngularJS to React
TypeScriptJavaScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsAWS LambdaTailwind CSSSCSS

Blockchain Consultant

Centrys

Defined and developed blockchain technical solutions for the Aion ecosystem, including wallets, browser extensions, and decentralized exchange infrastructure. Managed a team of 1–5 people.

  • Implemented a digital wallet for the Aion blockchain
  • Built an end-to-end (front end to blockchain) message signing/decryption mechanism
  • Developed and coordinated the implementation of a fully decentralized exchange house
GoReactSolidityBlockchainNode.jsSpring CloudMySQL

Software Developer

Aera Technology

Modernized a legacy monolith into microservices and built visual programming tools to make complex workflows accessible to non-technical users. Managed a team of 1–5 people.

  • Modernized the existing application by splitting code into multiple self-sustained modules and redesigning the architecture from monolith to microservices
  • Built a visual programming tool for less technical or non-technical people
  • Designed and implemented a JSON configuration protocol for dynamic UI rendering across web applications
JavaSpring CloudDockerPolymerMySQLSpring BootSpring MVC

Software Developer

Cloudflight

Worked on a wide range of projects from enterprise dealer management systems to drone-based anomaly detection and developer tooling platforms.

  • Developed a very large dealer management system using Spring, Tapestry, and Thymeleaf
  • Built a platform for technical interviews, which supported around 20 languages for running user code
  • Created an application for wind turbine anomaly detection using images from autonomous drones
JavaSpringGoNode.jsDockerOpenGLAngularJSPolymerThymeleafJavaFX

Intern Software Developer

Tecknoworks

Built internal tools during a summer internship, getting hands-on experience with Node.js early in its ecosystem.

  • Implemented an internal time management tool using Node.js
  • Built an internal seat management application that dynamically assigned different seats every week so that everyone had the opportunity to interact with one another
Node.js

Projects

Social News Desk App

A platform for newsrooms to manage, schedule, and broadcast social media posts directly on live television. Migrated the entire front end from AngularJS to React.

ReactNode.jsAWS LambdaJavaScript

Aion Desktop Wallet

A standalone desktop wallet for the Aion blockchain. Besides the usual transaction sending and history, it supports creating and restoring multiple accounts with a single mnemonic via a custom implementation of hierarchical deterministic keypair generation (SLIP-0010).

JavaReactBlockchain

Coduno

A technical interview platform implemented with Go, Polymer, and Docker. Supports 20 programming languages, easily configurable challenges, and a secure Docker runner for executing user code.

GoDockerPolymer

Theo Project

A fully decentralized global marketplace built at Centrys. Contains multiple projects under its wing, but the most notable is a fully decentralized exchange house based on the Aion public blockchain.

BlockchainSpringJavaReactMySQL

Koding Hackathon

Top 10 out of 98,000 teams in the 2016 Koding Hackathon. Developed a racing game for kids to learn programming — they write rules in JavaScript to control how their car behaves in different situations.

Node.jsJavaScript

Skills

Languages

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Java
  • Go

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • HTML / CSS
  • SCSS
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Redux

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Spring Boot
  • Spring Cloud
  • Spring MVC
  • Microservices Architecture

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon S3
  • Docker
  • Linux

Databases

  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • SQL

Blockchain

  • Blockchain
  • Solidity

Tools & Practices

  • GitHub
  • Agile Development

Rendering & Graphics

  • OpenGL