Bálint Szilakszi
Team Lead Platform SRE
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolBálint Szilakszi is a seasoned Site Reliability and platform engineering leader with 17 years’ experience building scalable, secure, and performant systems, now serving as Team Lead Platform SRE at willhaben in Vienna. He combines hands-on SRE practice with chapter-level leadership, shaping architecture and reliability standards across teams while mentoring engineers. Previously a platform architect and IT security officer, he brings a pragmatic blend of security-minded design and operational rigor honed on projects from social search engines to automated reputation management. Comfortable with low-level systems and legacy languages as well as modern cloud-native tooling, he has a track record of turning complex requirements into robust, well-architected production services. Quietly practical, he often bridges gaps between product teams and ops by translating business needs into measurable architecture decisions.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Eötvös Loránd University
Hungarian, English, German
Github Skills (43)
docker10
binding10
mastodon10
perl9
microblogging9
pixelfed9
federation9
activitypub9
webfinger8
caching7
ipv67
proxy6
libcurl6
fastcgi6
proxy-protocol6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
szbalint/WWW--Curl
Jun 2009 - Jun 2015
Perl binding for libcurl
Contributions:91 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 1 month
libcurlperlbinding
yelsterdigital/monthly-meetup
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes in 8 days
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