Balint Farkas
Senior Software Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Budapest, Hungary
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Top SchoolBalint Farkas is a senior full-stack engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a lifelong passion for coding that began at age 12. He designs and ships low-latency, high-scale systems—ranging from an app supporting 250K simultaneous users to a globally deployed solution with sub-4ms response SLAs—working across Azure, TypeScript/React, Python, C#, and both SQL and NoSQL datastores. Balint blends hands-on engineering with architecture and people leadership, having led teams and held engineering-lead and technical-evangelist roles at Turbine, Microsoft, and now DuckDuckGo. Comfortable in enterprise and startup environments, he pairs public speaking and cross-cultural communication (English, German, Hungarian) with a pragmatic focus on measurable performance and operational reliability. An unusual strength is his track record of contributing both code and system architecture for mission-critical, latency-sensitive platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Software Engineering, MSc Software Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
English, German, Hungarian
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Github Skills (70)
dotnet10
duckduckgo9
linux9
outlook9
cloud-computing9
firefox-addon9
windows9
bypass9
gmail9
icloud9
chrome-extension9
command-line9
privacy9
console9
hipchat9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mshudx/geckocooker
Dec 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
mshudx/faceapi-demo
Nov 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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