Esztergom, Komárom-Esztergom, Hungary
Engineering leader with a track record of scaling technical teams and driving operational excellence. I specialize in partnering with engineering directors and executive leadership to translate strategic vision into execution. My passion lies in building exceptional engineering cultures where high performance meets psychological safety. I have successfully scaled engineering organizations (hiring 6+ engineers and managing distributed teams), guiding top talent through promotions and career pivots. Leveraging deep experience in data-intensive environments (Cloudera), I focus on 'Customer-Focused Engineering'—ensuring that technical decisions translate directly to business revenue and customer value rather than just checking boxes on a roadmap.
Built an exceptional engineering culture through rigorous performance management and regular 1:1s, successfully guiding 5 engineers to promotion through structured career development plans. Led the scaling of the engineering team by hiring and onboarding 5 top-tier engineers, directly contributing to the team's growth phase and operational capacity. Managed the full employee lifecycle, including performance improvement plans (PIPs) and talent retention strategies, maintaining high-performance standards during periods of rapid growth. Orchestrated cross-team coordination to ensure the delivery of critical roadmap items, prioritizing customer impact and revenue generation over rigid adherence to process. Served as a technical partner to senior leadership, enabling the team to solve complex data challenges while maintaining code quality and engineering best practices.
Leading (5) the QE efforts of CMA(Cloudera Migration Assistant) for helping customers migrating their data and workload to the CDP Public Cloud and Private Cloud. Our daily work covers designing and implementing system tests, improving end-to-end tests to cover new features. Maintaining the internal github infrastructure for runners. Working on release certifications of multiple migration paths. Supporting the dev team with infrastructural improvements for dev-testing new features, orchestration of existing use-cases to demonstrate CMA features for stakeholders.
Leader of the Sustaining SecGov team(6) working on release and platform certifications for Atlas, Ranger and Knox. Taking care of cumulative hotfix releases for CDP Private Cloud in the scope of the components above. Helping my team with managing related projects, keeping our focus on release scope and taking care of their professional career.
Contributing to various software projects as Scala and Java developer in Hungary and NewYork(remote). Leading team efforts to deliver in time of a startup project.
As a database engineer I was responsible for writing new queries of a datawarehouse, analyzing slow performing ones generated by a high level tool and design database structure for high performance data access in a banking environment. Oracle environment, PLSQL language mostly.