Summary
Gleb Batalkin is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently helping SpaceX scale large distributed data processing, storage, analysis, and visualization systems that handle hundreds of millions of values per second and petabytes on disk. A physicist by training with an M.S. from Creighton and research experience on the ALICE experiment at CERN, he brings a researcher's rigor to engineering complex, high-throughput systems. He progressed through multiple engineering and leadership roles at SpaceX, pairing deep backend and systems expertise with a hands-on approach to shipping reliable tools used by thousands of engineers. An immigrant and first-generation English speaker, he combines cross-cultural resilience and mentorship with a habit of building side projects and mobile apps that reflect curiosity across domains.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Physics, Master of Science (M.S.), Physics at Creighton University
English, Russian, Spanish