Mustafa Balata is a cloud infrastructure leader and former CTO with 14+ years of hands-on software experience and a 17-year passion for coding that began at age 12. He specializes in AWS solutions architecture, large-scale migrations, and building developer-centric platforms—having consolidated 50+ AWS accounts into a secure multi-account Terraform-driven architecture and modernized legacy systems with zero-downtime migrations. At Auxmoney he now oversees reliability, security, and observability across dozens of environments while coaching SRE/DevOps teams; previously as CTO at Manzilik he scaled the platform to support a 40% user growth and sped deployments by 30%. His background spans backend engineering, Kafka-based data pipelines, blockchain integrations, and founding a boutique software studio that prizes “art” in code. Based in Berlin, he combines strategic thinking with hands-on engineering and a people-first leadership style that prioritizes audit readiness and developer velocity.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Arafat for Talent secondary school
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Islamic University Gaza
ICO Monitor is a tool that tracks the ICO behavior to make sure it is transparent. Giving charts and statistics about this ICO as well as giving a score for each ICO depending on answering a set of questions, where answers depend only on smart contract code analysis
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