Yan Kalbaska
Director Of Engineering at HERE Technologies
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolYan Kalbaska is a pragmatic engineering leader with nearly a decade of hands-on product and people experience and two decades of industry exposure, now directing engineering at HERE Technologies from Warsaw. He has a track record of turning fragmented teams and legacy tooling into focused, high-impact domains—driving 2x revenue-share growth in payments at PandaDoc and 36% SDK adoption uplift plus 2.5x traffic growth at Mapbox. Yan blends deep mobile and GIS product roots (iOS engineering and mapping/data tooling) with proven operational rigor: scaling operator productivity up to 5x, growing multiple team leads internally, and shipping million-MAU consumer products. He teaches engineers how to level up soft skills and system thinking, and brings a founder’s mindset from running a GIS startup and a leasing business. Colleagues describe him as the “heart behind New Kingdoms,” signaling a creative, product-first approach underpinned by measurable outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma International Economic Relations, Diploma International Economic Relations at Belarusian State Economic UniversityHarvard University (HarvardX) online program Computer Science, Harvard University (HarvardX) online program Computer Science at CS50International Business, International Business at Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm
English, Russian, German, Polish, Italian, Russian, Turkish
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Github Skills (32)
interface-builder10
location10
in-scope10
geocoding10
swift-package10
directions9
java9
geojson9
android-sdk9
sdk9
mapbox-geocoding8
swift8
plugin8
android8
openstreetmap8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kujunda-seda/worthy-v2
Jul 2019 - Sep 2020
Worthy is a multi-platform personal finance app with focus on simplicity.
Contributions:28 commits, 40 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 2 months
financemulti-platformpersonal-financeandroid
kujunda-seda/new-kingdoms
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Simulator and game prototyping engine.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 23 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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