Oleg Balunenko
Software Engineer at XTEN LIMITED
Tbilisi, Georgia
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Top SchoolOleg Balunenko is a pragmatic software engineer based in Tbilisi with eight years of hands-on experience designing and delivering microservice architectures and external APIs using Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, and modern streaming/datastores like Kafka, ClickHouse, Postgres, and Redis. He has repeatedly improved developer ergonomics and delivery quality by standardizing APIs, CI/CD, integration testing, and observability across multiple companies, and has led cross-functional teams while interviewing and mentoring engineers. Oleg’s strengths include building driver-agnostic test frameworks and migration-safe database tooling that reduced risk when changing storage backends, plus practical performance and reliability wins such as async job execution and intelligent fallbacks. He pairs production-focused engineering with mentoring at The Mentoring Club and a habit of shipping pragmatic infrastructure improvements (ARM64 test environments, Telegram alerts) that quietly raise team velocity. Outside work he’s an avid traveller and gravel cyclist, a background that shows curiosity and persistence he brings into complex system design.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
engineer-economist-programmer, engineer-economist-programmer at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
English, russ, Polish, Russian, Georgian
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Github Skills (200)
multiple-browsers10
parser10
postgresql10
instagram10
github10
statsd10
travis10
testing10
databases10
spamassassin10
intel-edison10
google-cloud-spanner10
scheduling10
automation10
bluetooth10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
obalunenko/coverbadger
Sep 2021 - Mar 2023
Generate coverage badge images for Markdown files using Go
Contributions:2 releases, 74 reviews, 55 commits in 1 year 6 months
gomarkdown
obalunenko/kafka-dump
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
Kafka consumer that read data (multiply topics could be specified to )from kafka and write them to disk split by topic, date
Contributions:14 releases, 48 commits, 31 PRs in 2 years 6 months
kafkakafka-consumergolangdumper
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