Adam Kovacs
Senior Backend Engineer at Self-Employed Backend Engineer | Contractor
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
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Top SchoolAdam Kovacs is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Cluj-Napoca with 12 years of experience building scalable, production-grade backend systems for growth-stage and enterprise companies. He specializes in modernizing Rails monoliths, designing event-driven microservices in Go, and improving observability and developer tooling across stacks that include Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, PostgreSQL, NATS and Kafka. As an independent consultant and former Toptal core team member and technical lead, he blends hands-on coding with backlog grooming, cross-functional coordination, and mentoring to drive reliable delivery. His background spans API design for mobile and web, infrastructure automation, and decomposing legacy systems into highly available services. Notably, he moves comfortably between Ruby, Go and Python, favoring pragmatic architecture choices that reduce operational friction. He holds a Computer Science degree from Sapientia and brings a steady focus on scalability and developer experience to every project.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Sapientia Hungarian University Of Transylvania [EMTE]
English
Github Skills (103)
ruby-client10
responsibility10
elasticsearch-client10
kill9
filetype9
aggregate9
checker9
eager8
elasticsearch8
neomake8
eager-loading8
ruby8
tuple8
vimscript8
elastic8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
adamors/feri
Dec 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
adamors/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:66 pushes in 9 years 2 months
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