Serguei Balanovich
Developer | Creator | Investor
What I do
Dev Lead
I have 8+ years of experience building and leading engineering teams. I specialize in deploying data platform infrastructure, building out data products, and designing beautiful UIs for these products.
Creator / Designer
I am a passionate about design, teaching, and video production. I maintain a 150K subscriber YouTube channel where I teach solving Rubik's Cubes. I am also a hobbyist board and video game designer.
Investor / Consultant
In my years of building data products for businesses of all sizes, I have acquired a sense of how businesses can achieve explosive growth through data-driven strategies. I use this to consult startups I invest in!
My Experience
2022-Present
Palantir Technologies
Lead UI Developer
Delivering UIs for business-critical product functionality, driving design decisions, prioritization, and implementation with a team of 10+ BE engineers on new Palantir products.
2020-2022
Palantir Technologies
Team Lead
Invented a novel, patent-pending approach to automated data processing, called Software-Defined Data Integration (SDDI) to dramatically improve time-to-value for Palantir customers. Built an engineering team to deliver the product as Palantir Hyperauto. Drove full stack product development (UI, BE, Data Pipelines) and owned business outcomes.
2016-2020
Palantir Technologies
Forward Deployed Engineer
Worked across 6 different customers (2 enterprise, 4 pilots) to build custom tooling on top of Palantir core offerings in order to deliver on customer business requirements and close contracts. Most of my focus was on data product UIs and robust data pipelines to get data into the hands of operational users.
2015-2016
Palantir Technologies
Infrastructure Engineer Intern
Developed rigorous testing processes and testing automation for data ingestion pipelines. Focused on cross-product excellence and end-to-end product execution, ensuring the platform as a whole worked smoothly.
2014-2015
Hubspot
UI/UX Dev Intern
Created features and improvements to both the front and back end of applications including the Forms UI, Template Builder, and Template Marketplace.