Bence Simon
Staff Software Engineer at Cloudera
Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolBence Simon is a Staff Software Engineer based in Hungary with a strong Java background and six years of focused experience building web applications and services across financial, government, and service sectors. He currently drives backend work at Cloudera after roles at IBM and long-term leadership at EPAM, blending hands-on coding with technical leadership. Bence contributes to notable open-source projects like Apache NiFi, improving UI search, adding unit tests, and fixing file listing and decimal handling edge cases. He brings a pragmatic approach to refactoring and test-driven improvements, helping reduce privilege-related failures in production workflows. With MSc/BSc training in Computer Software Engineering from Eötvös Loránd University, he pairs solid academic foundations with practical, cross-domain delivery experience. Quietly detail-oriented, he often surfaces value by addressing small but disruptive bugs that improve system reliability.
6 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering at Eötvös Loránd University
Hungarian, English
Github Skills (6)
javas10
apache-nifi10
java10
testing10
file-handling9
user-interface8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/nifi
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Apache NiFi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:225 reviews, 36 commits, 80 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Bence primarily focused on improving the user interface search functionality, extending it with filters and refactoring the existing solution. The code changes show the modification of a test Java file and the addition of test cases, indicating the implementation of unit tests. Also the user fixed a file listing issue, preventing failures due to insufficient privileges and updated decimal handling.
apache-nifinifijavaapache
simonbence/nifi
Mar 2020 - May 2025
Mirror of Apache NiFi
Contributions:335 pushes, 76 branches in 5 years 3 months
nifinimbleconnectorapacheapache-nifi
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