Luka Balantič
Software Engineering Manager at Klarna
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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SeniorLuka Balantič is a software engineering manager based in Berlin with nearly a decade of hands-on experience building and operating full-stack, cloud-native systems. Currently leading two full-stack teams at Klarna, he specializes in regulated banking domains where reliability, compliance, and cross-team alignment matter. Previously he scaled infrastructure and delivery at PiNCAMP using Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Node/TypeScript, Python, GraphQL and PostgreSQL, while fostering stronger product-engineering collaboration. His background includes designing event-driven microservices and serverless platforms, plus front-end work across React, Vue and Angular, giving him true full-stack fluency. Luka combines people leadership with deep operational experience—often removing delivery bottlenecks and improving engineering practices across teams. He brings a pragmatic, systems-minded approach to shipping maintainable, secure software in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, Slovenian
Github Skills (5)
storage1
runner1
mongod1
nodejs1
mongodb1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
luka-balantic/simple-captcha-bypass
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
luka-balantic/bot-helpers
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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