Yury Balandin
Chief Technology Officer at Tripster
Paphos Municipality, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolYury Balandin is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over 25 years of hands-on experience building web platforms, marketplaces and game infrastructures, currently leading a 20+ person engineering organization in the travel tech space from Paphos, Cyprus. He combines deep engineering chops in Python, system architecture and DevOps with a founder’s mindset—co-founding projects like habrahabr.ru and creating engines used by major Russian sites and online stores. Notable accomplishments include migrating a large monolith from Python2 to Python3, instituting a Zero Bug Policy, and designing microservice architectures and CI/CD pipelines that cut technical debt and improved reliability. Yury has repeatedly launched fast MVPs and boxed products across media, TV streaming and B2B marketplaces, and earlier built multi-datacenter game platforms supporting hundreds of people. Beyond product delivery he taught Telecommunications Systems to engineering students for a decade, reflecting a long-term commitment to mentoring and knowledge transfer. He’s an active Python advocate with a track record of practical open-source contributions and a taste for turning infrastructure challenges into scalable business capabilities.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Laser and Optic-Electronic Systems, Master's degree, Laser and Optic-Electronic Systems at Московский Государственный Технический Университет им. Н.Э. Баумана (МГТУ)Master's degree, ENGINEERING, Master's degree, ENGINEERING at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
Русский, Английский
Github Skills (16)
simplify10
mocking10
testing9
mock-server9
ocean9
api8
http8
functional-testing8
async8
api-testing8
cryptanalysis8
python8
ord7
cryptography7
digitalocean7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
geraxe/dolib
May 2020 - Jun 2021
Python library for awesome Digital Ocean API
Contributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 46 commits in 1 year 1 month
python-libraryapipythonoceandigital-ocean-api
teach-telecom/telecom-book-2015
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 commits in 4 months
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