Simon Belak
Founder at Bird Buddy
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Belak is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 11+ years building data-driven products, analytics infrastructure, and growth systems from startup to scale. He blends deep backend engineering (notably contributions to the popular open-source Metabase BI project) with product-led growth, having driven a 50% revenue lift through pricing and CRO work as Chief Growth Officer. Comfortable toggling between systems thinking, philosophy and theatre, he focuses on emergence, networks and modes of thought to design observable, high-leverage analytics platforms and hiring processes. As CTO and consultant he instituted modern engineering practices, increased release cadence, and mentored teams to ship tangible business outcomes. Based in Ljubljana, he also mentors founders and engineers, bringing a rare mix of hacker-philosopher curiosity and operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
High school, High school at Gimnazija VičPhysics Philosophy, Physics Philosophy at University of Ljubljana
English, Slovenian, German, Croatian
Github Skills (6)
clojure10
clojure-cli10
sql9
web-development8
data-analysis8
database-design7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
metabase/metabase
Jun 2017 - Feb 2021
The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:99 reviews, 1074 commits, 370 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Simon's commits primarily focused on adding new functionality to the backend of the Metabase application, introducing features such as multi-modality insights, and new chart capabilities. Their work involved modifying existing Clojure code, incorporating new dependencies, and generating SQL code. The user also performed debugging and improvements to backend data processing for the application.
datasimplestfastestbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
sbelak/huri
Feb 2016 - Sep 2017
Tools for the lazy data scientist
Contributions:182 commits, 3 PRs, 170 pushes in 1 year 6 months
dataframesdata-sciencemachine-learningscientistdata-scientist
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