Vitalii Honta
Staff Software Engineer at Backstory
Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolVitalii Honta is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient, data-driven systems primarily in Scala, ZIO, Temporal and Python. Based in Prague, he has progressed from Scala developer roles to technical lead and staff engineer positions at companies like EVO and People.ai, focusing on big data and distributed workflow reliability. An active open-source maintainer, he authors projects such as zio-temporal and scala-ql and regularly speaks at Functional Scala and ScalaUA meetups about productionizing Temporal workflows and ZIO-powered architectures. Colleagues know him for turning complex orchestration problems into pragmatic, testable solutions and for advocating functional design in large codebases. Notably, he blends hands-on engineering with community education—recorded talks spanning 2018–2023 reveal a sustained commitment to developer tooling and data pipeline ergonomics.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Ukrainian, English, Czech
Stackoverflow
307reputation
10kreached
6answers
5questions
Github Skills (101)
generic-derivation10
http10
temporal-workflow10
structured-logging10
generative10
effects10
http-client10
openapi10
slf4j10
sttp10
zio10
akka10
generative-ai10
uri10
self-documenting10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vitaliihonta/zio-temporal-samples
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
Samples of https://github.com/vitaliihonta/zio-temporal
Contributions:49 PRs, 86 pushes, 47 branches in 1 year 9 months
zio
vitaliihonta/sensitive
Mar 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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