Attila Szakács
Senior Software Engineer at Axoflow
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolAttila Szakács is a Senior Software Engineer and founding engineer at Axoflow with seven years of experience building reliable back-end systems and leading the Dataplane team. He brings deep systems-level expertise in C, Python, and Go, plus hands-on DevOps skills across Docker, CI/CD, and cloud integrations. Attila has a track record of improving open-source infrastructure—his contributions to the well-known syslog-ng project modernized its MQTT destination and build tooling. Comfortable in both multi-threaded, non-blocking data processing and test-driven development, he combines pragmatic engineering with tooling and packaging experience (APT repos, Dockerfiles). Based in Hungary and trained as a mechatronics engineer, he pairs hardware-minded rigor with software craftsmanship to solve complex integration and telemetry problems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc in Mechatronical Engineering, BSc in Mechatronical Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
English, Hungarian
Github Skills (14)
c1710
mqtt10
c1110
mqttnet10
logging9
docker8
task-queue8
message-bus8
queue8
dockers8
message-queue8
python7
c-language6
cprogramming-language6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
syslog-ng/syslog-ng
May 2021 - Dec 2022
syslog-ng is an enhanced log daemon, supporting a wide range of input and output methods: syslog, unstructured text, queueing, SQL & NoSQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 1030 reviews, 117 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Attila primarily contributed to the syslog-ng project by refactoring and improving the MQTT destination module and associated functionality. They implemented features such as configurable client IDs and the ability to template the topic name. The user also made code improvements, including type conversions and fixing float-conversion warnings. Furthermore, they contributed to the build system by adding new Dockerfile variables and refactoring existing ones.
syslog-ngpythonnosqlelasticdaemon
alltilla/lgtm-bison-build-test
Oct 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
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