Serhii Balbieko
Site Reliability Engineering Lead at NinjaHoldings
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSerhii Balbieko is a Site Reliability Engineering Lead with 14 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently leading SRE at NinjaHoldings from Toronto. He combines deep hands-on skills in AWS, Terraform/CloudFormation, CI/CD and observability with a strong software engineering background in Ruby, Python and TypeScript. Serhii has a track record of migrating legacy stacks to cloud platforms, designing zero-downtime deployments, and improving developer productivity through automation and ChatOps. He frequently drives both strategy and implementation—authoring infrastructure roadmaps, bootstrapping IoT and streaming platforms, and writing the automation that keeps them reliable in production. An active open-source contributor, he improved core Hubot Slack integrations and framework behavior, reflecting attention to communication flows and resilient backend design. He pairs technical leadership with a keen interest in cybersecurity, bringing pragmatic security-minded operations to large-scale systems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computers Science, BS, Computers Science at Donbas State Technical University
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (14)
bots10
hubot10
coffeescript10
back-end-development10
slack10
googlebot10
expressjs9
javascript8
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
slackapi/hubot-slack
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Slack Developer Kit for Hubot
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Serhii focused on enhancing the functionality and integration of the Hubot Slack adapter. They implemented features for handling attachments in messages, enabling custom message formatting. The user also fixed several issues related to the handling of message parameters and link names, as well as improved overall code style. These improvements suggest a focus on refining the communication flow and user experience of the Hubot Slack integration.
botdeveloper-kitslack-botslack-appslack
hubotio/hubot
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
A customizable life embetterment robot.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Serhii primarily focused on modifying the core functionality of the Hubot framework. Their contributions included refactoring the Express server setup, adding functionality to handle HTTP methods (PUT and DELETE), and adding a NullRouter to manage situations where the HTTP server is disabled. Additionally, they fixed an issue related to file renaming during the creation process and improved code style.
roboticsbotchatrobotcustomizable
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