Attila Magyar
Software Engineer at 🔥
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolAttila Magyar is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience leading backend and DevOps work from Budapest, most recently as Lead Developer at Balabit. He’s a polyglot developer and steady open-source contributor to high-profile Apache projects like Hive, Ambari and Knox, where he improved build reliability, security integrations, and performance-sensitive query execution. Comfortable across systems programming, scripting and cluster security, he has a track record of fixing flaky tests, hardening Kerberos/Zookeeper deployments and adding MySQL token-state support. Currently studying postgraduate data analytics and machine learning, he blends practical production experience with emerging data science skills. A hobby musician who is studying Japanese (JLPT N3), he brings curiosity and cross-disciplinary thinking to engineering problems. Not actively looking for opportunities, he maintains a thoughtful, contribution-first presence in open source.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, Mathematics Expert in Data Analytics and Machine Learning, 4, Postgraduate Degree, Mathematics Expert in Data Analytics and Machine Learning, 4 at Eötvös Loránd UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
English, Japanese, Hungarian
Github Skills (20)
kerberos10
mysql10
scripting10
hadoop10
zookeeper10
java10
javas10
script10
tez10
sql10
apache-hive10
sh10
shell10
big-data9
databases9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ambari
Nov 2016 - Sep 2019
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:232 commits, 264 PRs, 145 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Attila primarily focused on enhancing the security and stability of the Apache Ambari project. Their work involved adding functionality for securing Zookeeper and the Hadoop cluster, updating dependencies, and fixing authentication-related issues. They also contributed to improving the overall reliability of the system by addressing issues related to the lifecycle management of components, service checks, and Kerberos integration. Additionally, the user was involved in the development of new features and functionalities.
provisioningpythonclustersjavascriptapache
apache/knox
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Mirror of Apache Knox
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:236 reviews, 51 commits, 184 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Attila's contributions primarily focused on improving the Apache Knox project by addressing code quality and build process issues. They fixed shellcheck errors and modified shell scripts, demonstrating familiarity with scripting and build automation. Additionally, the user implemented support for MySQL in the JDBCTokenStateService, indicating back-end development skills. Furthermore, the user addressed flakiness in test cases and contributed to improving the overall stability and reliability of the project.
javaapachebig-dataknox
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