Ioan Istrate

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Founder & Principal Engineer at Tripvento

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Founder & Engineer building Tripvento, an intent based hotel ranking API. Previously worked on ranking systems at U.S. News & World Report serving millions of users. Head TA at Georgia Tech's Operating Systems course (1,000+ students). I specialize in geospatial data, ranking infrastructure, and AI-powered search.

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I Prompt Injected My Own GitHub README. Then I Built a Honeypot.

Scaling to 200+ Cities by Deleting 90% of My Database

Zero Public Ports: How I Secured my B2B API Against 10k Scraper Requests

I Removed One Line of Django Code and My API Got 95ms Faster

How I Built a Self Auditing Data Pipeline With Multiple LLMs

Why Hotel Rankings Are Broken (And What I’m Building Instead)

How I'm Building a Content Factory That Catches Its Own AI Slop

From Idea to MVP: A Founder Engineer’s Guide to Building Travel Platforms

Avoid These Common Travel Mistakes: 16 Lessons Learned – FAQ2

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I Prompt Injected My Own GitHub README. Then I Built a Honeypot.

Scaling to 200+ Cities by Deleting 90% of My Database

Zero Public Ports: How I Secured my B2B API Against 10k Scraper Requests

I Removed One Line of Django Code and My API Got 95ms Faster

How I Built a Self Auditing Data Pipeline With Multiple LLMs

Why Hotel Rankings Are Broken (And What I’m Building Instead)

How I'm Building a Content Factory That Catches Its Own AI Slop

From Idea to MVP: A Founder Engineer’s Guide to Building Travel Platforms

Avoid These Common Travel Mistakes: 16 Lessons Learned – FAQ2

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