Csaba Balazs
Engineering Lead at Lingoda GmbH
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolCsaba Balazs is an engineering lead with nine years of experience building and scaling PHP/Symfony platforms, currently leading engineering at Lingoda from Cluj-Napoca. He combines deep backend expertise in Symfony, ElasticSearch, MongoDB and RabbitMQ with practical product work—having architected APIs, Chrome extensions, and recruitment-focused tooling while serving as technical advisor at Human Direct. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved core Symfony bundles and contributed to OroPlatform, demonstrating comfort with platform-level refactors and OAuth state handling. Csaba blends hands-on coding with people-facing roles, matching technical evaluation and hiring strategy to product needs, and continually experiments with communication tools to connect candidates and opportunities. Unusually, his toughest productivity coach is his young daughter, who he credits with teaching him real multitasking.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economical Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Economical Informatics at Babes-Bolyai UniversityMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Bethlen Gabor College
Hungarian, English, Romanian
Github Skills (15)
authentication10
user-authentication10
php10
oroplatform10
api10
oauth10
symfony-bundle10
symfony10
b2b10
symfony-ux10
database9
phpunit9
apidoc9
databases9
git7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
oroinc/platform
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Main OroPlatform package with core functionality.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Csaba primarily contributed to the OroPlatform package, focusing on back-end functionalities within the Symfony framework. Their work involved modifying existing code to accommodate updates, resolving merge conflicts, and extending and refactoring core components. They touched on aspects of the API bundle and email synchronization, demonstrating expertise in platform-level infrastructure and configuration. Additionally, the user made changes to comment and activity extensions.
api-platformoroplatformphpb2bsymfony
hwi/HWIOAuthBundle
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
OAuth client integration for Symfony. Supports both OAuth1.0a and OAuth2.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Csaba focused on enhancing the `hwioauthbundle` library, primarily by extending the state parameter support. They added features related to the handling of state parameters to improve the library's integration with various OAuth providers. These changes included improvements to the `State` class, modifications to the `SessionStorage`, and corresponding tests, enhancing how the library manages and persists OAuth state during authorization flows. This refactoring and addition of tests improved the reliability and robustness of the OAuth functionality.
apiphpauthenticationsymfony-bundleoauth1
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