Stanislav Balia
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolStanislav Balia is a pragmatic Software Engineer 2 based in Prague with nine years of hands-on experience building and testing .NET and cloud-integrated systems. He progressed from cryptographic and backend work at PrivatBank to delivering device data collection and low-code platform features, and now contributes to Azure DevOps at Microsoft. Comfortable across backend APIs, SignalR real-time features, and test automation, he brings both feature development and quality-first practices to large-scale projects. His open-source QA contributions to the widely used microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks repo show a focus on integration tests, negative scenarios, and robust mocking to harden CI/CD workflows. Colleagues rely on him for steady maintenance, clear code reviews, and incremental improvements that reduce production risk. He’s driven by continuous learning and has a track record of turning operational complexity into reliable, testable software.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Oles Honchar Dnipro National UniversityJunior Specialist, Software Development, Junior Specialist, Software Development at Technological College of DDTU
Stackoverflow
385reputation
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19answers
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Github Skills (16)
azure-pipelines10
test-automation10
testing10
mochajs9
typescript-types9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
mariadb6
sql-server6
moq6
winforms6
php6
singleton6
sql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 19 commits, 67 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Stanislav primarily contributed to the quality assurance of the project by writing and updating test suites. Their work involved creating integration tests, including negative tests to validate error handling, as well as mocking dependencies to test specific scenarios. They focused on testing different aspects of the project, such as GitHub release downloads, file share artifacts, and build artifact downloads. The user also wrote basic unit tests to ensure the proper functionality of the software.
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
sbalia/azure-pipelines-tasks
Apr 2022 - Mar 2023
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Contributions:142 pushes, 58 branches in 10 months
pipelinesazure-pipelinesazure-devopsazure
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