Vasili Galka is a Senior Software Engineer based in Tel Aviv with over a decade of production experience and a two-decade technical pedigree spanning embedded firmware to low-latency C++ systems. He has driven performance-critical redesigns for high-frequency trading components, led small engineering teams as de facto tech lead, and modernized legacy backends using Python, Docker and SQL to achieve dramatic throughput gains. His background includes building complex embedded avionics firmware and custom toolchains, plus cloud-native microservices and .NET runtime instrumentation—demonstrating unusual breadth across hardware-adjacent and large-scale distributed software. Now at Microsoft, he combines deep systems-level insight with pragmatic engineering and a track record of simplifying complex codebases for maintainability and stability.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Physics-Mathematics, B.Sc. Physics-Mathematics at Tel Aviv University
Physics Math Computers, Physics Math Computers at Shevah-Mofet High School at Tel-Aviv
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Vasili Galka - Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft