Summary
Tomas Tibensky is a Staff Backend Engineer and solutions architect with 11 years of experience building resilient, cost-efficient backend platforms and distributed payment systems. He combines hands-on engineering—optimizing AWS costs, cutting API latency by up to 90%, and maintaining 99.99% uptime—with product-minded leadership from founding two startups, including an award-winning FinTech. Comfortable across DDD, hexagonal architecture, event sourcing and high-throughput systems, Tomas has architected payment flows handling 10K+ daily transactions and integrated multiple third-party gateways. He mentors engineers to full ownership, instruments observability (structured JSON logs, CloudWatch dashboards) for rapid incident resolution, and brings a rare blend of financial domain insight and production-grade engineering. Based in Calgary, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a practical focus on deliverable, extensible solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
Applied Computer Science, Applied Computer Science at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
High School Diploma Information Technology, High School Diploma Information Technology at private secondary vocational school ANIMUS, Nitra, Slovakia
English, Slovak, Czech