Andras Meszaros
Senior Software Engineer at Nokia
Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolAndras Meszaros is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and security integrations, currently at Nokia after a multi-year role developing an internal computer vision platform at Verizon. He began his career in a Cloudera university partnership researching machine learning and even built a bespoke commits database to support his thesis on commit risk assessment. Andras contributes to prominent open-source projects like Apache Kafka and Apache Ranger, where he focused on Kafka plugin security, dependency upgrades, and robust test automation. With a strong academic foundation in electrical engineering, biomedical engineering and machine learning, he blends research rigor with production-grade engineering. Outside of work he pursues climbing and ski instruction, reflecting a disciplined, hands-on approach both on the job and in the outdoors.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Università di TrentoMaster's degree Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Master's degree Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsAthens Week Short Exchange Programme Computer Science, Athens Week Short Exchange Programme Computer Science at Télécom ParisMachine Learning Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer at Cubix Institute of Technology
English, German
Github Skills (16)
plugin-development10
testing10
unit-testing10
javas10
kafka10
apache10
java10
security10
scala9
log4j9
exception-handling9
sasl9
ssl9
kafka-connect8
dockers5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ranger
Jan 2020 - Jul 2022
Apache Ranger - To enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform and beyond
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andras primarily worked on enhancing the Apache Ranger Kafka plugin, upgrading Kafka dependencies and implementing security features. Their contributions include upgrading Kafka versions, implementing new authorizer interfaces, and integrating SSL/SASL authentication mechanisms within the Kafka plugin. These changes reflect improvements in the plugin's compatibility with newer Kafka versions and enhanced security capabilities.
javaapacheapache-rangerrangerauthz
apache/kafka
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:22 reviews, 13 commits, 19 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andras primarily contributed to the Apache Kafka project by addressing bugs and improving the reliability of the KafkaLog4jAppender. Their work included implementing exception handling within the appender, fixing issues with the FutureRecordMetadata class, and creating retry logic to handle potential failures during topic creation in the Kafka Connect module. The user also wrote multiple unit tests, including tests for the log4j appender and the producer's internal components, to ensure the correctness and stability of Kafka's internal systems and the integration with external dependencies.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
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