Attila Szabo

Big Data Expert And Platform Engineer (contract)

Hungary
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Attila Szabo is a Big Data expert and platform engineer with over a decade of experience designing and implementing large-scale data systems, primarily in finance, chemicals and cloud migrations. He architects and executes multi-petabyte data warehouse moves to AWS, combining hands-on implementation with cost and reliability optimizations using EMR, S3, Presto/Athena, Kafka, Cassandra and columnar formats like Parquet/ORC. A long-term Apache Sqoop committer and release manager, he has contributed important bug fixes and robustness improvements to a flagship open-source ingestion tool. Comfortable in a variety of languages from Java and Scala to Clojure, Haskell and Python, he blends systems programming depth with practical data engineering. He also brings teaching experience—over six years of part-time lecturing—so he pairs technical leadership with mentorship and onboarding skills. Based in Hungary, he often operates as architect-implementer on cloud-first BI and data science engagements, bridging enterprise requirements and open-source ecosystems.
code10 years of coding experience
job12 years of employment as a software developer
bookBSc, Computer Science, Math, BSc, Computer Science, Math at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
bookMSc, Software Engineering, MSc, Software Engineering at Cranfield University
languagesHungarian, English, German
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Github Skills (6)

javas10
sql10
java10
database-management9
quality-assurance8
software-quality8

Programming languages (4)

JavaShellPerlRuby

Github contributions (5)

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apache/sqoop

Sep 2016 - Feb 2018

Mirror of Apache Sqoop
Role in this project:
userBackend Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 67 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Attila contributed to the Apache Sqoop project by fixing a bug related to the direct connector usage and an issue where ClassWriter fails if a column name contains a backslash character. The user also made changes to include the stack trace in the logging of exceptions in ExportTool and added a validation check for --hive-import and --incremental lastmodified. Furthermore, the user introduced the escape logic for column mapping parameters and fixed the SqoopOptions's parseColumnMapping method to support precision in mapping.
apachedatastreamsqoophadoopjava
maugly24/dotfiles

Nov 2020 - Aug 2024

Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
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Attila Szabo - Big Data Expert And Platform Engineer (contract)