Balint Farkas

Leading Engineering Teams

Pullach im Isartal, Bavaria, Germany

About

Always looking to improve, let it be an organization, the people in it, the software we are working on... and myself.

Experience

  • SIXT ()
    • Senior Engineering Manager
      Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

      - Scaled up Yield Management from 7 Engineers to 20+, becoming strategic pillar of the company since 2025 - Created high throughput distributed systems, tailored to US/EU pricing strategies (custom AWS stack, integrating ML solutions) - Enabled business by providing several engineering based innovation to increase revenue 2.5% YoY - Created Agentic platform to perform business use-cases in production environment - Lead programs spanning 10k+ man hours - Trainer/Coach of Engineering Managers in the company

    • Agile Coach
      Oct 2018 - Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos

      - Creating and managing a company level customer centric OKR process - Coaching and mentoring managers for for a more agile, leadership oriented role - Co-Created Sixt’s IT organizational structure, held workshops and trained directors, bringing a scaled agile oriented way of working

  • Founder, Mentor at Argeis Consulting Kft.
    Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

    Coaching and mentoring of managers and scrum masters Consultant for projects

  • Agile Coach at LogMeIn
    Jul 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Responsible for the organizational development of Lastpass engineering unit - Enabled teams to self-organize, as a direct result delivered 7 projects on time - Interviewed, coached and onboarded of scrum masters, engineering managers - Optimized the end to end value creation stream, cutting number of rerolls, dependencies of teams, lead development time - Held workshops on company level: agile & lean, complexity, leadership - Drove the company’s scrum master guild

  • Nokia (6 yrs)
    • Agile/Lean Transformation Officer
      Sep 2015 - Jul 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

      - Transforming an existing organizations with the help of agile and lean, DevOps values, principles, practices - Coaching scrum masters & teams - Agile & lean trainings/workshops (Budapest site & org level) - Creating shared R&D vision, culture

    • R&D Line Manager
      Apr 2014 - Sep 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Responsibility for a 50 person R&D internal structure and processes, directly managed 14 individual contributors, 3 team leads - Built up a new product development unit from multiple departments, won 5+ GSM-Railway public tenders - Created and managed the onboarding, teaming, work allocation, scaled agile processes - Hired and successfully onboarded 20+ software engineers

    • Scrum Master
      Jan 2013 - Mar 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Software Developer at Siemens
    Apr 2008 - Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Development of Intelligent Network Services (SCP): - Requirement analysis of customer requests - Implementation Specification - Implementation & Testing - Onsite customer support