Maksym Balatsko
Senior Software Engineer II at McKinsey & Company
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolMaksym Balatsko is a Senior Software Engineer II with a decade of hands-on experience building backend systems, high-performance data pipelines, and production ML solutions across on-prem and cloud environments. He has led engineering teams to deliver real-time network traffic analytics and anomaly detection at scale, improving model relevance by 20% and monitoring tens of gigabits per second. Comfortable spanning development, operations, and delivery, Maksym has optimized latency-sensitive OCR and video-processing pipelines (90%+ field accuracy, sub-2s processing) and doubled production throughput through algorithmic and systems improvements. He pairs technical breadth—databases, streaming, Terraform, Grafana, CI/CD—with people leadership, mentoring teams and formalizing knowledge-sharing and resilience practices. Based in Prague, he brings a pragmatic delivery focus and a knack for turning research-grade models into robust, GDPR-aware production services. An early adopter of ML and data-first engineering, Maksym often bridges gaps between disciplines to convert complex requirements into measurable product outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree (Unfinished), Knowledge Engineering, Master's degree (Unfinished), Knowledge Engineering at FIT CTU in PragueBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at FIT ČVUT v Praze
English, Czech, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (179)
anomaly-detection10
nix10
tensorflow-lite10
kalman10
autopy10
nixos10
linux10
kalman-filter10
basler10
nixpkgs10
mobilenet10
filter10
particle-filter10
data-mining10
visualizer10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mbalatsko/opencv-rolling-ball
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Fully Ported to Python from ImageJ's Background Subtractor. Rolling ball and sliding paraboloid background subtraction algorithms.
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
pythonsliding-paraboloidrolling-ballimagejrolling
balatmak/triera
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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