Karlis Balcers

Chief Technology Officer at MeaWallet

Karlis Balcers has extensive work experience in the technology industry. Karlis currently holds the position of Senior Architect at Paymentology, starting in January 2023. Prior to this, they worked at MeaWallet as the Chief Technology Officer, starting in April 2021. In this role, they also served as Head of Engineering from August 2014 to April 2021, where they led development, QA, and DevOps teams, handled customer communications, acted as a lead architect, and produced technical documentation. Karlis also briefly worked as a Development Manager & Tech Lead at MeaWallet from February 2014 to August 2014.

Before joining MeaWallet, Karlis worked as a Project Manager & Tech Lead at Point Transaction Systems, SIA from an unknown start date to February 2014. Karlis also served as a Team Leader from an unknown start date to 2009 and as a Senior Developer from an unknown start date to 2008. Karlis began their career as a Software Developer at Point Transaction Systems, SIA in June 2005, where they worked until an unknown date in 2007.

Overall, Karlis Balcers has held various technical and managerial positions throughout their career, demonstrating their expertise in software development, project management, and leadership.

Karlis Balcers attended Āgenskalna Valsts ģimnāzija from 1999 to 2002. During this period, they did not earn any degree and studied physics. Later, they enrolled at Ventspils Augstskola from 2002 to 2005, where they pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in the field of IT.

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Timeline

  • Chief Technology Officer

    April 1, 2021 - present

  • Head Of Engineering

    August 1, 2014

  • Development Manager & Tech Lead

    February 1, 2014