Igor Baliuk is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in distributed systems, infrastructure and developer platforms, now working at Jane Street in London. He helped build Avito’s Internal Developer Platform serving 2,000+ engineers and 3,500 microservices, driving migrations to Istio, implementing multi-cluster Kubernetes operators, and scaling OpenTelemetry pipelines to handle 15M+ events per second. Comfortable at the intersection of product and engineering, he runs customer interviews and shapes platform direction in addition to hands-on systems work. His background includes early-stage architecture and backend work at a crypto startup, and he has taught Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing to undergraduates. A competitive-programming foundation and a penchant for improving developer experience inform his pragmatic, performance-focused approach. As a UK Global Talent Visa holder, he brings both academic teaching experience and large-scale production expertise to complex infrastructure challenges.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Higher School of Economics
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at BSU Lyceum
Contributions:17 commits, 7 PRs, 21 pushes in 11 months
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