Balazs Czifra
Principal Support Engineer at Elastic
Budapest, Hungary
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Top SchoolBalazs Czifra is a Principal Support Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently based in Budapest and helping users get the most from Elasticsearch at Elastic. His career began building search-driven applications at Fastcase, where a passion for Lucene and full-text search matured into deep operational expertise across ingestion, analytics, and performance tuning. At Elastic he blends hands-on troubleshooting—spanning Kafka, Hadoop, Kubernetes, and OS-level I/O tweaks—with customer-facing mentorship to solve high-scale, production incidents. Known for turning obscure infrastructure symptoms into actionable fixes, he brings both software engineering rigor and practical systems intuition to complex distributed search deployments.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
English, Hungarian, Spanish
Github Skills (59)
search-engine10
opensearch10
observability10
metricbeat10
transport10
heartbeat10
dotnet10
indexing10
sharding10
filebeat10
java10
kibana10
packetbeat10
restful10
document-database10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bczifra/unscraper
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
bczifra/github-slideshow
May 2021 - May 2021
A robot powered training repository :robot:
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
roboticsrosrobottraining
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