Vlad Baluk
Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Baluk is a Senior Software Engineer based in Warsaw with 8 years of experience building production-ready full-stack systems and microservice architectures. He has led small engineering teams and shipped scalable backend services across startups and established companies, currently contributing to Atlassian after roles at Hostfully and Tango Me. His work spans Kafka-centric architectures, REST APIs, integrations with platforms like Booking.com and Airbnb, and pragmatic efforts to improve retention and conversion through data-driven feature design. Vlad combines hands-on coding and architecture with disciplined delivery practices—code reviews, logging, and automated testing—to keep issue queues manageable and features reliable in production. Notably, he has a track record of selling and delivering complex architectures to clients and increasing user engagement through targeted metric shifts. He blends formal CS training (Master’s) with a FullStack “ninja” mindset that favors measurable product impact.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce, Bachelor's degree, E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Github Skills (29)
validation-rules9
fluent-interface9
specification8
listener8
testing7
aws-s37
validation7
java7
jstack7
junit7
sanitization7
rule7
kotlin7
api6
aws6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vlbaluk/java-validator-livr
Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
Lightweight java validator supporting Language Independent Validation Rules Specification (LIVR)
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 1 month
validationlanguage-independentlivrspecificationindependent
advacs/prometheus
Jun 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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