Michal Zaborec
Lead Scala Developer Team Leader at GlobalWebIndex
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichal Zaborec is a Lead Scala Developer and team leader with 10+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable, distributed server-side systems for high-volume customers. He blends functional programming and architecture skills—Scala, Akka, Cats/ZIO—with deep production experience in SQL/NoSQL data stores (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Scylla/Cassandra, Redis) and cloud-native infrastructure (GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform). At GlobalWebIndex he leads Scala development and previously ran backend teams building IPTV platforms used by operators like O2 CZ and Swisscom, supporting over half a million devices. He focuses on microservices, streaming, and security-aware design, able to move from hands-on implementation to shaping architecture and team practices. Trained as a computer scientist at Czech Technical University, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset and a knack for translating complex integration needs into resilient APIs and services.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague
English, Czech
Github Skills (56)
asynchronous10
concurrent10
effects10
stm10
messaging9
circe9
kubernetes9
scala9
charts9
zio9
concurrent-programming9
helm9
typesafe9
functional-programming9
concurrency9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GlobalWebIndex/challenge-scala
Mar 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:16 reviews, 8 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 9 months
GlobalWebIndex/arrow
Apr 2024 - Oct 2025
Apache Arrow is a multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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