Alex Szabó
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Budapest, Hungary
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Top SchoolAlex Szabó is a Senior Software Engineer based in Budapest with 12 years of experience as a web-focused generalist, specializing in JavaScript/TypeScript build systems, developer experience, automation and tooling. He has driven monorepo infrastructure, CI/CD and workflow automation for teams at Prezi and improved Kibana's CLI and error handling as an open-source contributor to Elastic. Comfortable across front-end and back-end concerns, he blends pragmatic engineering with developer-focused initiatives like internal conferences and mentorship. His background spans startups to large enterprises, with hands-on work in AWS, Java, Scala and Node.js, and a knack for turning build- and release-time complexity into reliable, documented tooling.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics5 / 5, 5 / 5 at Radnóti Miklós Gimnázium, SzegedBachelor's degree, Business Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Business Information Technology at Corvinus University of Budapest
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Github Skills (20)
command-line-interface10
bash10
script10
command-line10
nodejs10
cli10
buildkite9
sql9
documentation9
buildkit9
git8
html6
sql-server6
php6
excel6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:700 reviews, 791 PRs, 725 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed primarily to the Kibana keystore CLI, enhancing its functionality and improving user experience. They added documentation to clarify the keystore's behavior and added a `show` command. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to the handling of command-line arguments and options, ensuring consistent behavior. The user also worked on addressing error output, including a solution for handling the errors from checking the git root path, and a fix for a variable.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
js13kGames/incredibird
Aug 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:129 commits in 1 month
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