Boris Malenšek
Head Of Platform Service And Infrastructure
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBoris Malenšek is a results-driven engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling platform, data and marketplace systems across e-commerce and finance. He has led large, distributed organizations—most recently heading platform and infrastructure at Yatta after senior roles at Aiven, TomTom and Zalando—delivering multi-cloud database services and high-impact commerce platforms that support hundreds of millions of users and significant revenue. Boris combines hands-on technical depth (Scala, distributed data processing, event-driven architectures) with people-centric leadership, growing teams from single digits to 100+ engineers across international sites. He’s skilled at designing resilient, extensible architectures for peak events like Black Friday while removing operational friction for platform users. Based in Frankfurt, he advocates an inclusive culture of trust, feedback and continuous growth, and often blends strategic oversight with direct technical contributions. A pragmatic problem-solver, he pairs academic grounding in computer science with a track record of turning complex, high-scale problems into reliable production systems.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Univerza na PrimorskemBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of LjubljanaComputer technician Compute Science, Computer technician Compute Science at Srednja elektro in strojna šola KranjOsnovna šola Železniki
Slovenian, English, German
Github Skills (42)
json-api10
circe9
scala8
maven-plugin7
gradle-plugin7
rest-api6
streaming6
access-token6
gson6
rest6
java6
concurrency5
agile5
high-performance5
aws5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
scala-jsonapi/scala-jsonapi
Nov 2015 - Apr 2017
Scala support library for integrating the JSON API spec with Spray, Play! or Circe
Contributions:88 commits, 55 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 5 months
circejson-apiscala
zmeda/komang
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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