Akos Kitta
Senior Software Engineer at Renesas Electronics
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAkos Kitta is a senior full-stack engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building developer tools, IDE integrations, and cloud-native platforms. He has led and contributed to high-profile open-source projects such as Arduino IDE 2.x and Eclipse Theia, blending front-end polish with backend robustness and upstream fixes. At Renesas and Arduino he drove web-based IDEs, Kubernetes operator extensions, and backend services (Node.js, NestJS, Go, Spring Boot), while earlier work spans language design, Eclipse RCP tooling and healthcare terminology servers. Comfortable across JS/TS, Java, Kotlin, Go and cloud environments, he also brings QA/test automation depth from projects like dugite. Known for shipping pragmatic platform APIs and developer-facing features, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with documentation and community contributions.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Post-graduate Informatics Specialist in Bionic Computing, Post-graduate Informatics Specialist in Bionic Computing at Pázmány Péter Catholic University - Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics
English, Hungarian
Stackoverflow
148reputation
15kreached
8answers
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Github Skills (20)
git10
javascript10
chai10
nodejs10
test-automation10
typescript9
typescript-types9
front-end-development9
typescripts9
react8
user-interface8
electron8
back-end-development7
eclipse6
umd6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
arduino/arduino-ide
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Arduino IDE 2.x
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:427 reviews, 195 commits, 487 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Akos primarily contributed to the development and improvement of the Arduino IDE 2.x, specifically addressing front-end and back-end aspects. Their work included minifying browser code, fixing URL-related issues, restoring missing code, and addressing issues related to the OS sleep/wake cycle. They also made UI changes, such as the implementation of features to show the selected board's configuration in the menu.
arduino-idearduino
desktop/dugite
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
Elegant bindings for working with Git in your Node applications
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 43 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Akos primarily focused on testing the `dugite` library. Their contributions included adding and modifying tests to cover various scenarios, including environment variable configurations and error cases. The user implemented tests using a testing framework like `chai` to verify the behavior of the Git processes. They also added tests for handling external Git executables.
node-applicationnodejsdugite-native
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