Summary
Valerii Burlaka is a Staff Software Engineer based in the Cracow area with a decade of experience building data-driven, production-grade systems across startups and large tech partners. He progressed from QA and automation roles into data engineering and full-stack development, driving major performance and cost improvements—most notably redesigning an ETL pipeline to be ~6x faster and 80% cheaper. At Fluxon and while supporting Google he has combined hands-on coding with system ownership, shipping backend and ML-adjacent solutions such as an in-house CTR prediction engine. Known as a pragmatic problem-solver, he accelerates teams by turning manual workflows into automated, scalable processes and mentoring peers. Though not actively seeking new roles, he continues to evolve technically and delivers measurable impact across product and infrastructure domains.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Math and Economics, High School Math and Economics at Gymnasium #46 in name of M.V. Lomonosov, Kharkiv, Ukraine
English, Ukrainian, Polish