Alex Lakatos
Chief Technology Officer at Interledger Foundation
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Lakatos is a Chief Technology Officer and technology leader with 15 years of experience building web-first developer products across browser, communications, and FinTech domains. He has driven developer adoption and standards for the Interledger protocol, lowering barriers to entry while moving from hands-on roles in JS dev advocacy to strategic CTO leadership. A reformed JavaScript engineer with roots in QA and automation, he’s contributed to notable open-source projects including Mozilla Add-ons tests and the Vonage Node SDK, improving reliability and test coverage. Based in Bristol and a frequent conference traveler, he combines community-facing developer relations instincts with deep practical experience shipping resilient APIs and frontend systems. Unusual for a CTO, he still digs into test locators and request-handling edge cases, keeping product quality grounded in code.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University
English, Romanian, French
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
pytest10
selenium10
python10
apidoc10
selenium-ide10
api10
nodejs10
test-automation10
messaging9
sms9
css-selectors9
error-handling9
sms-messages9
logging8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Vonage/vonage-node-sdk
Sep 2017 - Jun 2020
Vonage API client for Node.js. API support for SMS, Voice, Text-to-Speech, Numbers, Verify (2FA) and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 130 commits, 76 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex focused on improving the robustness of the Node.js SDK. They addressed potential errors in API request handling, specifically related to response closures, ensuring proper error logging and callback invocation. Further improvements involved updating the user agent string for beta versions. This demonstrates a focus on improving the reliability and functionality of the Vonage API client for Node.js.
developer-destinationnexmovoice-to-textserver-sdktwo-factor-authentication
mozilla/Addon-Tests
Aug 2011 - Aug 2011
Tests for Mozilla's Add-ons website
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Alex's commits primarily focus on testing the Mozilla Add-ons website. The changes include writing and modifying test cases for the homepage, specifically addressing the "Most Popular" section and the Mozilla logo. The user implemented assertions to verify the visibility of elements, and that links resolve as expected. The modifications involve updating locators and test parameters.
firefoxadd-onsthunderbirdmozillaons
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