Valter Balegas
Co-Founder & CTO at ElectricSQL
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolValter Balegas is a founder and CTO with 13 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, causal consistency, and CRDT research dating back to 2011. Based in Lisbon, he co-founded ElectricSQL after senior engineering roles at Oracle/MySQL and startups where he designed mBaaS MVPs and P2P/CRDT-powered platforms. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and blends academic rigor with hands-on product delivery, frequently challenging assumptions like the CAP theorem in practical systems. Known for turning cutting-edge consistency models into production-ready architectures, he bridges deep research with pragmatic engineering to ship resilient, eventually-consistent applications.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Github Skills (53)
sqlite10
erlang10
postgresql10
datatypes10
mysql10
elixir10
crdt10
planet10
sql10
mobile10
replication10
conflict-resolution10
database10
transactional9
client-library9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
balegas/balegas.github.io
Jul 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
electric-sql/examples
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Example applications using ElectricSQL.
Contributions:23 reviews, 47 commits, 16 PRs in 2 months
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