Eric Balawejder
Lead Software Engineer at Hilton
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolEric Balawejder is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in the Java 21 ecosystem, building backend services and developer tools for scaled production systems. He currently leads development of Hilton's Connected Room platform, growing it across thousands of properties while driving migrations, microservice API design, and robust testing including custom test containers. He blends practical performance sensibilities with a taste for functional programming and a strong advocacy for end-to-end encryption, ensuring solutions work for users without cutting-edge devices or unlimited cloud budgets. His background includes award-winning AI research on multimodal information graphic recognition and hands-on contributions to open-source Java exercises, where he improved test coverage and validation. Based in Philadelphia, he mentors engineers and partners across product, analytics, and QA to turn complex requirements into easy-to-use, secure business features.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Mathematics at Temple UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science Computer Science. Computer Security, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science Computer Science. Computer Security at West Chester University of Pennsylvania
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/java
Aug 2019 - Jan 2022
Exercism exercises in Java.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:63 reviews, 12 commits, 46 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Eric focused on enhancing the test suite within the exercism/java repository. Their commits primarily involved adding and modifying test cases for various exercises, specifically for anagram, grep, luhn, and nucleotide-count problems. They corrected existing tests and created new ones to improve code coverage and validation. Additionally, the user removed zero-width space characters from test methods.
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ericbalawejder/image-service
Feb 2022 - Jan 2026
A microservice to prevent uploading duplicate images to a REST application.
Contributions:7 PRs, 52 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 11 months
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