Oleg 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
Chat application that allows to send messages between host and guest users
Contributions:18 releases, 27 PRs, 100 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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Oleg Balunenko - Software Engineer at XTEN LIMITED