Summary
Egor Balakin is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems, currently working at Flant from Tbilisi, Georgia. He has strong Go and Kubernetes expertise, having developed K8s custom controllers, ClusterAPI components, and CI/CD tooling while contributing to large enterprise projects at SAP and SberCloud. Egor shipped production services for Wildberries’ PGaaS and VM backup/migration tools, including migrating public APIs to gRPC and implementing Ansible-driven automation. Comfortable in both hands-on development and team leadership, he has managed an OpenShift team and delivered public backend services for high-scale environments. He tends to work at the intersection of orchestration, observability and automation, favoring pragmatic solutions that reduce operational toil. His background in applied informatics and steady progression from intern to senior engineer signal a practice-focused engineer who thrives in complex, distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Applied Informatics, Bachelor's degree Applied Informatics at The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
English, Russian