Balint Bene
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Shopify
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBalint Bene is a Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Shopify with over a decade of engineering experience and a BCS from the University of Waterloo. He specializes in building and leading platform and event-streaming systems—having tech-led Kafka-based streaming efforts at Scotiabank and progressed from senior software engineer to staff infrastructure roles at Shopify. Balint blends systems and full-stack experience (embedded systems through to cloud-native Java/Spring and GCP) and consistently focuses on building reliable products from the ground up. He enjoys learning new technologies and quickly applying them to production-scale infrastructure problems. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he brings both hands-on implementation skills and team leadership to complex distributed systems challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BCS Computer Science, BCS Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (32)
cdc10
kafka-connect10
redhat10
kafka-producer10
debezium10
databases10
kafka10
sink10
bigtable10
sql10
event-streaming10
change-data-capture10
data-capture10
apache-kafka10
binlog10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bdbene/debezium
Jul 2021 - Feb 2025
Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://issues.redhat.com/browse/DBZ.
Contributions:9 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 8 months
sqlchange-data-capturedatabasesdata-capturedatabase
Shopify/drill
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
Apache Drill
Contributions:7 PRs, 11 pushes, 10 branches in 7 months
drillapache-drillapachebig-datajava
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