Benjamin Antal
Senior Software Engineer at ClickHouse
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBenjamin Antal is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in high-performance C++ systems, concurrent data structures, and CI/CD-driven development across Linux and Windows. He has driven backend and DevOps work on Memgraph—an open-source, streaming-oriented graph database—contributing features such as triggers, stream integrations (including Kafka), improved testing, and clang-tidy/sanitizer adoption to raise code quality. Currently at ClickHouse, he focuses on scalable, transactional systems and continues to deepen his C++ expertise while learning Rust. Benjamin pairs hands-on implementation with tooling and workflow improvements, often owning build infrastructure, testing, and release automation. Outside work he prototypes C++ and Rust mini-apps and sharpens his problem-solving through logical games, reflecting a pragmatic engineer who values both correctness and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science Engineer, Excellent with honours, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science Engineer, Excellent with honours at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
English, Hungarian
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Github Skills (28)
unit-testing10
e2e-testing10
c-language10
e2e-test10
testing10
kafka10
graph-database10
e2e10
stream-processing10
cprogramming-language10
test-unit10
trigger9
cypher9
opencypher8
clang-tidy8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
memgraph/memgraph
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Open-source graph database, tuned for dynamic analytics environments. Easy to adopt, scale and own.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:877 reviews, 231 commits, 146 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin made significant contributions to the Memgraph graph database project, focusing on both back-end and build-related aspects. Their work included improvements to the versioning script, adding logging features for snapshot and WAL files within the storage system. They implemented the usage of clang-tidy and sanitizers to improve the code quality. Additionally, they added unit and end-to-end tests for the triggers and streams features, demonstrating a focus on testing and quality assurance. Further, the user implemented basic queries to manage streams and added the feature to integrate Kafka streams into Memgraph.
cyphergraph-algorithmsreal-timegraph-analysisstreaming
antaljanosbenjamin/miscellaneous
Jul 2017 - Jul 2022
Code snippets
Contributions:426 commits, 58 PRs, 382 pushes in 5 years
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