Bence Erős is a Lead Developer based in Debrecen, Hungary with 15 years of experience building and leading Java-based backend systems across startups and enterprises. He has moved from hands-on engineering roles to technical leadership at HTEC and now Zenik Solutions, guiding teams on scalable, production-grade services and test automation. A longtime contributor to the widely used json-java repository, he implemented JSON Pointer support and robust testing and parsing improvements—highlighting a pragmatic focus on standards-compliant, well-tested libraries. His background includes distributed-systems work at Hazelcast and healthcare interoperability at Patients Know Best, showing strength in performance-sensitive and regulated domains. Colleagues describe him as a developer-leader who still dives into code to solve tricky integration and edge-case testing problems.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor's degree, Software Development, Bachelor's degree, Software Development at KEA - Københavns Erhvervsakademi
A reference implementation of a JSON package in Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:1 review, 23 commits, 3 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Bence primarily focused on implementing and testing JSON Pointer functionality within the Java-based `json-java` repository. Their work included the initial implementation of the `JSONPointer` class, along with associated exception handling and testing using JUnit. Subsequent commits added improved escape handling, support for URL fragment notation, and enhanced failure handling. Furthermore, the user added `optQuery` to `JSONObject` and `JSONArray` and implemented builder methods.
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