Borut Balazek

Founder & Senior Software Engineer - Independent Consultancy

Corco Labs d.o.o. (previously Corcosoft, Borut Balazek s.p.) · Aug 2012 - Present

Founded and operate an independent software consultancy delivering full-stack products, integrations and infrastructure for startups, SMEs and enterprise organisations. Long-term contract engagements are invoiced through the consultancy and listed separately below.

• · Built and delivered custom software for companies including Philips, RWE, Innogy, Danone and Les Mills, across full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, DevOps and technical leadership.
• · Delivered projects across FinTech, IoT, Energy and EdTech, including internal tools, business platforms and customer-facing applications.
• · Owned engagements end to end: requirements and planning, architecture, implementation, deployment, and long-term maintenance.
• · Worked directly with clients across the US, UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia, translating business requirements into technical decisions.

Founding Engineer / CTO - Hands-on Engineering

MarketAlerts.ai · May 2024 - Mar 2026

• · Helped build an AI-powered market intelligence platform covering more than 20 global markets in real time, spanning web app, mobile app and CMS.
• · Designed and built the backend and data platform: a monorepo of 100+ API endpoints, scheduled Airflow pipelines, crawlers and ETL workflows over SEC filings, news and market data.
• · Built LLM-based classification using hierarchical GPT models to categorize financial signals, powering AI watchlists and investor-facing insights.
• · Owned architecture and infrastructure, including the cloud migration from AWS to GCP.
• · Contributed across development, DevOps and product direction as part of the founding team.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer / Consultant

Edukey Education Ltd · Nov 2015 - Dec 2023

Long-term contract engagement, invoiced through Corco Labs d.o.o. - which is why the dates sit inside the consultancy period above.

• · Joined as the first developer alongside the CTO and helped scale the platform from tens of thousands to millions of users.
• · Modernized the product incrementally: rebuilt the legacy web application from jQuery to React, and migrated the mobile app from native Android to React Native across both Android and iOS.
• · Introduced a more structured development process with GitFlow, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes and Cypress testing.
• · Improved performance and scalability through SQL query optimization and other backend improvements.
• · Mentored junior developers, worked closely with QA on testing practices, and contributed to infrastructure planning and broader technical decisions as the platform grew.

Web Developer

Alstar d.o.o. · Dec 2011 - Jan 2013

• · Built and maintained websites, e-commerce solutions and business integrations for clients, from implementation through deployment and ongoing maintenance.