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Hi there, I’m Lucian Balan, a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12+ years of experience delivering scalable web and mobile products across automotive, fintech, insurance, and e-commerce domains. I enjoy turning complex problems into clean, maintainable code and mentoring teams to raise the bar on quality and speed. I’m currently leading engineering at Honda in Torrance, CA, and I’ve previously built robust platforms for Groupama Romania and United Petfood. I’m passionate about AI-assisted development, performance optimization, and collaborating with product, QA, and data teams to ship features that users actually love.…Hi there, I’m Lucian Balan, a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12+ years of experience delivering scalable web and mobile products across automotive, fintech, insurance, and e-commerce domains. I enjoy turning complex problems into clean, maintainable code and mentoring teams to raise the bar on quality and speed. I’m currently leading engineering at Honda in Torrance, CA, and I’ve previously built robust platforms for Groupama Romania and United Petfood. I’m passionate about AI-assisted development, performance optimization, and collaborating with product, QA, and data teams to ship features that users actually love.

Lucian Balan

Web Developer, Blockchain Developer, AI Developer

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Hi there, I’m Lucian Balan, a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12+ years of experience delivering scalable web and mobile products across automotive, fintech, insurance, and e-commerce domains. I enjoy turning complex problems into clean, maintainable code and mentoring teams to raise the bar on quality and speed. I’m currently leading engineering at Honda in Torrance, CA, and I’ve previously built robust platforms for Groupama Romania and United Petfood. I’m passionate about AI-assisted development, performance optimization, and collaborating with product, QA, and data teams to ship features that users actually love.…Hi there, I’m Lucian Balan, a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12+ years of experience delivering scalable web and mobile products across automotive, fintech, insurance, and e-commerce domains. I enjoy turning complex problems into clean, maintainable code and mentoring teams to raise the bar on quality and speed. I’m currently leading engineering at Honda in Torrance, CA, and I’ve previously built robust platforms for Groupama Romania and United Petfood. I’m passionate about AI-assisted development, performance optimization, and collaborating with product, QA, and data teams to ship features that users actually love.

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Hi there, I’m Lucian Balan, a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12+ years of experience delivering scalable web and mobile products across automotive, fintech, insurance, and e-commerce domains. I enjoy turning complex problems into clean, maintainable code and mentoring teams to raise the bar on quality and speed.

I’m currently leading engineering at Honda in Torrance, CA, and I’ve previously built robust platforms for Groupama Romania and United Petfood. I’m passionate about AI-assisted development, performance optimization, and collaborating with product, QA, and data teams to ship features that users actually love.

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Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan

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Work Experience

Senior Full Stack Engineer at Honda

March 1, 2022 - Present

Architected and led the rebuild of a legacy PHP/Laravel fleet management platform using React.js, Next.js, Node.js, and AWS microservices, significantly improving performance, maintainability, and scalability. Modernized frontend with SSR/CSR approaches to boost SEO and page load speeds. Designed and implemented an offline-first sync engine in React Native using SQLite for reliable mobile data capture and queue-based background syncing. Implemented RBAC and SSO authentication via JWT/OAuth 2, with Express middleware and PostgreSQL row-level security. Built geofencing and alert rules engine using AWS SQS, Lambda, and event-driven architecture to detect anomalies like speeding, idling, and route deviations. Deployed high-availability infrastructure on EC2, Kubernetes, S3, Redis, CloudFront, and Kubernetes, enabling low-latency performance and horizontal scalability. Led LLM Ops workflows focusing on vector database architecture and best practices for scalable AI deployments. Integrated A

Senior Full Stack Engineer at Groupama Asigurari

September 1, 2016 - February 1, 2022

Architected and led the rebuild of a legacy PHP/Laravel fleet management platform using React.js, Next.js, Node.js, and AWS microservices, significantly improving performance, maintainability, and scalability. Modernized frontend with SSR/CSR, improved SEO, page loading, and metadata usage. Implemented a secure RBAC and SSO authentication flow via JWT/OAuth 2, with policy middleware in Express and row-level security in PostgreSQL. Built an event-driven architecture with AWS SQS, Lambda, and microservices, including geofencing and alert rules to detect anomalies. Deployed a highly available infrastructure on EC2, Kubernetes, S3, Redis, and CloudFront. Collaborated with product, QA, and data teams in an Agile environment and mentored engineers to raise engineering standards.

Software Developer at United Petfood

May 1, 2010 - August 1, 2016

Delivered an e-commerce storefront frontend using React.js with SSR, structured metadata (Schema.org), and image optimization to boost SEO, page load speed, and organic traffic. Developed real-time inventory and pricing updates with Socket.IO and Apache Kafka, enabling live cart interactions and optimistic UI flows. Collaborated with design and backend teams to ensure scalable, maintainable code and a smooth user experience.