Summary
Balázs Bakai is an experienced Information Technology Engineer based in Budapest with 12 years of hands-on experience optimizing enterprise Java EE applications and building CI/CD-driven delivery platforms. He combines deep performance engineering skills—Dynatrace, JMeter, Eclipse Memory Analyzer—with practical DevOps expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab and GitOps to speed delivery and reduce operational costs. Notable past impact includes cutting a customer portal’s response time from 12s to 3s and halving hardware usage through targeted stabilization and code quality initiatives. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs Java EE, JPA/Hibernate and WildFly/Tomcat knowledge with frontend tooling and browser testing, and he has implemented code quality gates and automated delivery pipelines for large financial customers. He also brings a maker mentality (Raspberry Pi, Arduino) and a GDPR/SEO-aware perspective that helps bridge technical delivery with business and compliance needs.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Excellent, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Excellent at Budapesti Mûszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem
Faculty of Mechancial Engineering and Automation, Outstanding, Honours diploma - Szemerey Andor medallion, Faculty of Mechancial Engineering and Automation, Outstanding, Honours diploma - Szemerey Andor medallion at Kecskeméti Műszaki Főiskola
Hungarian, English