Egor Balyshev
Director Of Engineering at Statista
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolEgor Balyshev is a Director of Engineering based in Hamburg with 13 years of experience transitioning from hands-on backend engineer to strategic engineering leader. He has a strong track record at New Work SE driving platform migrations, building the company’s Kubernetes-based internal developer platform, and leading cross-team initiatives like observability and SRE rollouts. At Statista he quickly moved from Engineering Manager to Director, reflecting a knack for scaling teams and aligning engineering practices with business restructuring. Known for rebuilding high-performing teams and mentoring engineers into company-wide leaders, he combines deep technical fluency in backend systems with practical product-minded delivery. Early career roles as a founder and lead engineer gave him broad exposure to product, operations, and revenue-driven engineering decisions—an uncommon blend that informs his platform-first, operationally resilient approach.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Information Technology, Diploma with Honors, Engineer's degree, Information Technology, Diploma with Honors at Siberian State Aerospace University
English, German, Russian
Github Skills (61)
docker8
go8
image-manipulation8
kubernetes8
image-processing8
image8
sublime-text7
nodejs7
manipulation7
slimerjs7
scheduling7
phantomjs6
activemq6
firmware6
args6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
furagu/easy-gd
Jun 2013 - Aug 2015
Contributions:1 release, 192 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 2 months
manipulationmanipulation-libraryimageimage-manipulationnode-js
furagu/vargs-callback
Dec 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:21 commits in 8 months
argsvarsurrogatecallbackarguments
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