Marcos Balsa
Staff Software Engineer at Agoda
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
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Top SchoolMarcos Balsa is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-throughput, fault-tolerant data platforms and services from Bangkok. He has led architecture and implementation of large-scale systems—message schedulers and subscription services handling hundreds of millions of records daily—and driven performance and observability work across Kafka, Flink, and streaming pipelines. At Yelp he focused on Flink platform reliability, restart semantics and checkpoint performance, contributing fixes and API changes to the open-source paasta PaaS for better Flink management. Previously he designed end-to-end Hadoop/Spark pipelines and real-time fraud detection systems for enterprise clients, and optimized API gateways and auth services for production throughput. Known for combining hands-on coding with mentorship, incident leadership and technical hiring, he also brings a pragmatic focus on testing, SLOs and operational runbooks. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from Universidade da Coruña and enjoys contributing to open-source tooling that improves platform resilience.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc Computer Science, Master of Science - MSc Computer Science at Universidade da Coruña
English, Spanish, Galician
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Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
flink-sql10
apache-flink10
paas10
python10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
apidoc9
api9
docker9
testing8
pytest8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 21 commits, 23 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Marcos primarily contributed to the `paasta` platform, focusing on enhancing the restart functionality for Flink services. They addressed issues where restarts failed silently, implementing explicit failure messages with suggested workarounds. Furthermore, the user made small formatting fixes to the test code and modified the API to retrieve Flink cluster configurations and job details. The commits demonstrate an understanding of Flink service management, testing, and API integration within the PaaS platform.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
marcos-sb/leetcode
Feb 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:837 commits, 1124 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 1 month
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