Attila Kanto
Senior Director Principal Engineer at Cloudera
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolAttila Kanto is a seasoned engineering leader and principal architect with over 20 years of experience building distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, currently steering the backbone of Cloudera’s Hybrid Cloud platform from Budapest. He blends hands-on coding and prototyping with strategic architecture work—driving cross-cloud lifecycle consistency across AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem while also contributing critical backend fixes in well-known projects like Cloudbreak. His career spans startups to enterprises, evolving monoliths into resilient microservices, introducing CI/CD and idempotent workflows, and optimizing large-scale data and ML workloads. Notably, he leads Cloudera’s NKFIH-funded hybrid cloud research initiative and maintains a strong focus on operational reliability, zero-downtime upgrades, and cost-aware workload optimization.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Doctoral School of Applied Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Doctoral School of Applied Informatics and Applied Mathematics at Obuda UniversityMSc in Electrical Engineering Digital Signal Processing, MSc in Electrical Engineering Digital Signal Processing at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
English
Github Skills (7)
javas10
configuration-management10
java10
apidoc9
api9
json8
aws7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hortonworks/cloudbreak
Jun 2014 - Jan 2023
CDP Public Cloud is an integrated analytics and data management platform deployed on cloud services. It offers broad data analytics and artificial intelligence functionality along with secure user access and data governance features.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:244 reviews, 1145 commits, 1153 PRs in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Attila's commits focus on fixing issues related to stack parameters and credential handling within the Cloudbreak project. Their work involves modifications to Java code, specifically in the areas of stack parameter services, credential source decorators, and JSON-to-Stack converters, indicating a focus on backend systems and configuration management. The contributions involve database interaction, security configuration, and integrating with other systems such as AWS, demonstrating a strong understanding of the core system functionality. These changes primarily involve refactoring and fixing bugs, implying a good level of experience within the project.
data-management-platformcdp-public-cloudsecurecloud-servicesdata-management
schfeca75/cloudbreak
May 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:10 commits in 5 months
apicloud-agnosticagnosticas-a-servicehadoop
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