Attila Sztupak is a Lead Product Engineer with 16 years of experience building resilient software for the renewables and environment sector, currently based in Milton Keynes. He blends functional programming expertise in Haskell, Scala and Clojure with practical fluency in JavaScript, C#, Ruby and Java to deliver robust backend systems and product-focused engineering. His career spans senior technical roles at companies like Funding Circle and Moixa, progressing into leadership that bridges hands-on development and product outcomes. An applied mathematician by training (BSc Mathematics, The Open University) with earlier computer science studies, he brings rigorous problem-solving and a taste for formal approaches. He contributes to notable open-source tooling—having ported the Gherkin parser to .NET—illustrating a knack for cross-platform interoperability and internationalisation challenges. Colleagues describe him as a technically curious leader who converts complex domain constraints into maintainable, testable systems.
16 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics at The Open University
Computer Science, Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd University
A fast Gherkin parser in Ragel (The parser behind Cucumber)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Attila primarily focused on porting the Gherkin parser, which is the core component of the Cucumber testing framework, to the .NET platform. Their contributions involved refactoring the lexer and parser components, including implementing lexer tests and adapting the project structure. The user also added build and test tasks for the .NET library and ensured the parser reported the step kind independently of the language. Furthermore, they added a strong name to the Gherkin.dll and implemented features related to i18n support.
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches, 14 tags in 1 month
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Attila Sztupak - Lead Product Engineer at Risk Ledger