Summary
Szymon Halastra is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building resilient backend and big data systems, currently working at HERE Technologies from Krakow. He specializes in Java and Spring Boot, with hands-on expertise in Scala, Kafka, Cassandra, Kubernetes and Helm, and a track record of introducing performance testing and monorepo Gradle improvements. His background includes mission-critical systems at CERN and distributed-data work for defense projects, showing strength in low-latency caching and scalable storage patterns. Comfortable both shipping code and guiding small teams, he has also taken on part-time Scrum Master duties and system design responsibilities. Colleagues value his practical, get-your-hands-dirty approach to solving complex data problems and smoothing the path from prototype to production.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate, Computer Science, Postgraduate, Computer Science at Warsaw University of Technology
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Jagiellonian University
English, Polish