Dávid Balakirev Email & Phone Number

Budapest

Lead internal engineering team (focus: frameworks, libraries, project templates, cloud):* Defined roadmap in alignment with the other internal engineering teams and CTO* Aligned with our Business units to take their challenges into our planning* Defined project participation agreement to ensure we can proceed with our roadmapDefined and implemented Cloud Baseline for new projects: * Leading team which provides cloud solution templates, best-practices and support for developers. Invited technical and business leadership to find the right priorities.Introduced Cloud Education:* Defined group training and self-paced learning options for our technical staff so they have the required know-how for our cloud based client projects. There are programs for two of the hyperscalers.Internal education program measures:* Introduced quality measures to gauge which sessions really help employees* Supported the People (HR) unit by providing a holistic view on the employee learning journey.Work curriculum alignment: * Defined the curriculum for developers (work description, seniority progression requirements, education, career path) based on the requirements given by the Swiss ICT definitions. This affected all 300 hundred software developers, and was later used as part of the yearly appraisal talks. Gave education on this subject to Career Coaches across locations.

Budapest

* Coach four Career Coaches (each with their own pool of employees) who are responsible for the productivity and well-being of a pool of employees.* Evaluate candidates for cultural and professional fit as part of our hiring process.* Supported our employee feedback and appraisal process by designing a new “check-in” document to track achievements and improvement points.

Budapest

* Evaluated and introduced tools, provided best practices and support for topics related to Continuous Delivery. * Took scheduled support work on the build infrastructure, source and binary repository services.* Worked on projects part time to coach practices and tooling for software quality management (static code analysis, coverage, etc.).* Distributed tasks, participated in project involvement negotiations, aligned with my Swiss project lead.* Upgraded infrastructure components, participated in the design of our monitoring and backup solutions and provided support for client project teams.

* Implemented features, bug-fixes in mid-sized teams working on a logistics system based on JavaEE, Oracle DB, Struts.* Undertook integration tasks for production installation of our cluster, directly in the customer environment.

Budapest

* Implemented features, bug-fixes in a back-office system based on Java EE and Eclipse RCP.* Appointed as team lead after 2010.* Aligned requirements with Business from Dublin.* Managed work distribution for our small (3) developer team.