Summary
Yuri Baltovskiy is a Scala Big Data Team Lead with over 20 years in IT and 13 years focused on delivering large-scale data, web, database and mobile solutions. He applies TDD, OOP and functional programming patterns daily, combining academic training in parallel, reactive and functional programming from EPFL with practical SaaS engineering techniques from UC Berkeley. At Avenga he leads Scala and big data initiatives, shaping architectures and mentoring teams to production-grade, test-driven systems. His background in applied mathematics and parallel programming gives him a penchant for performance-conscious designs and concurrent system optimization. Based in Ukraine, he blends deep theoretical knowledge with hands-on leadership to translate complex requirements into maintainable, scalable pipelines. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who brings rigor from research-informed practices into everyday engineering.
13 years of coding experience
Software Engineering for SaaS, Software Engineering for SaaS at University of California, Berkeley
Parallel Programming, Parallel Programming at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Specialist in programming and mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Specialist in programming and mathematics, Applied Mathematics at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University