Ákos Vandra-meyer
Principal Software Engineer at Ciphertrace, a Mastercard company
Tata, Komárom-Esztergom, Hungary
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Top SchoolÁkos Vandra-meyer is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience bridging embedded systems, web engineering, and JVM-based backends. He began his career designing embedded solutions—including an Automated Archery Scoring System used at the 2012 World Championship Finals—and later transitioned to Scala, where he champions strong typing and functional programming to make code more provable and maintainable. Ákos excels at automating repetitive workflows and designing systems that minimize manual effort, informed by hands-on work from ESP-IDF bindings for IoT devices to large-scale web services. His career spans startups, consultancy, and enterprise teams (Whitepages/Hiya, Elegran, Digital Asset, and Ciphertrace/Mastercard), giving him a practical mix of product-focused and infrastructure-driven engineering. Comfortable across hardware and the JVM, he combines electrical engineering training with deep software craftsmanship to solve cross-domain problems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design, compiler-level thinking, and a knack for turning tedious tasks into automated, reliable pipelines.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economicsn/a, Schonherz Electronic Workshop, n/a, Schonherz Electronic Workshop at Simonyi Karoly College for Advanced Studies
English, Hungarian, Romanian, French
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Github Skills (14)
binding10
esp3210
esp-idf10
embedded10
rust10
sys10
patch9
git6
functional-programming6
slick6
javascript6
curl6
scala6
angularjs6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
esp-rs/esp-idf-sys
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Bindings for ESP-IDF (Espressif's IoT Development Framework)
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 7 commits, 2 PRs in 20 days
Contributions summary:Ákos primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the `esp-idf-sys` repository, which provides bindings for the ESP-IDF framework. Their contributions involved modifying build configurations, incorporating patches, and adding a macro to generate the `esp_app_desc` structure, a critical component for ESP-IDF applications. These changes encompassed code formatting, adding weak definitions and adjusting build-related files, indicating a strong focus on integrating with and extending the ESP-IDF ecosystem.
esp-idfespressifiotrustesp32
axos88/postgresql-1
Mar 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
postgresqlcookbookpostgres
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