Leonid Burdinov
Staff Software Engineer at Navan
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonid Burdinov is a Staff Software Engineer based in Israel with a decade of experience building distributed systems and developer-facing infrastructure. He specializes in Scala and functional programming, having applied ZIO, Akka and Kafka to high-throughput products like pricing engines and log analytics. Leonid has driven platform improvements from Kafka client libraries and CI pipelines to a company-wide Bazel monorepo migration, balancing operational cost, visibility and developer experience. He takes a holistic view—translating business requirements into resilient architectures while proactively identifying failure modes and mitigations. An avid tinkerer and mentor, he routinely pairs hands-on coding with guiding teams in concurrent, testable workflows. Outside the obvious, he blends formal math/computer science training with practical system hardening to deliver predictable, observable services at scale.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Mathematics and Computer Science, B.Sc Mathematics and Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew, Russian
Github Skills (77)
intellij-idea10
client-library10
intellij-plugin10
producer10
sasl10
formatter9
intellij9
eve-online9
concurrent9
scala9
kafka9
intellij-platform9
continuation8
atom-plugin8
asynchronous8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
leonbur/unicorns
Aug 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 release, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
leonbur/table
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
A command line tool to select columns from a table-shaped input
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
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