Valdis Zobēla
Head Of IT Baltic Application Architecture
Riga, Latvia
Summary
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Top SchoolValdis Zobēla is a Head of IT Baltic Application Architecture with over 15 years as a system architect and full‑stack developer and 11 years’ domain experience in insurance, currently leading application architecture for If Insurance Baltic from Riga. He blends deep .NET and JavaScript expertise (C#, ASP.NET, TypeScript/Angular) with hands‑on experience across Python, C/C++, databases and embedded tinkering, reflecting a pragmatic engineer who still enjoys DIY electronics and space tech. Known for designing configurable, expression‑driven systems that push business logic into configuration (as in his dynamic form platform), he balances high‑level architecture with test‑focused backend contributions—evident in his work improving Akka.NET’s persistence and multi‑node testing. Valdis pairs academic grounding in distributed systems with a track record of shipping resilient, searchable enterprise services and improving test automation for distributed actor systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master, IT, Computer Systems, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Master, IT, Computer Systems, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University)Rēzeknes 5. Vidusskola
English, Latvian, Russian, German
Github Skills (16)
net10
asp-net10
csharp10
distributed-programming10
actor-model10
concurrency10
dotnet-core10
testing10
serialization9
akka9
data-serialization9
dotnet9
cluster-computing8
clustering8
reactive7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
akkadotnet/akka.net
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Canonical actor model implementation for .NET with local + distributed actors in C# and F#.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 46 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Valdis primarily focused on enhancing the test suite for the Akka.NET framework, developing features for persistence and multi-node testing. This involved creating new test cases and improving existing ones to ensure the reliability of the actor model implementation. The contributions included implementing journal and snapshot store testing behaviors, as well as a TRX reporter for MultiNode tests. Further development included contributions to stream ref functionality, including serialization, which suggests knowledge of the underlying systems architecture.
dotnetconcurrencydistributed-actorsdistributed-programmingc-sharp
valdisz/hmac-security
Jun 2016 - Feb 2018
Implementation of HMAC based authentication for WebAPI and OWIN
Contributions:5 PRs, 39 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
authenticationowinwebapihmacoauth2
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