Csaba Palfi
Lead Principal Architect at Palfi Ltd
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCsaba Palfi is a Lead Principal Architect with two decades of experience building and scaling global e-commerce platforms, currently leading architecture at Yum! Brands and running his own consulting firm, Palfi Ltd. He has driven identity and customer account systems for 100M+ users, introduced passwordless authentication at scale, and delivered 30–50% latency reductions through pragmatic performance engineering. Csaba combines hands-on engineering (Node.js, React, AWS, Terraform) with leadership—scaling teams, owning production reliability, and bootstrapping engineering capabilities across markets from Pizza Hut to Expedia. He’s also contributed to the popular Automattic Mongoose library, improving schema versioning and documentation, highlighting an attention to maintainability in core libraries. Based in Stony Stratford, he blends big-company impact with startup-style delivery and a knack for turning performance audits into measurable business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsMSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University of Szeged
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
nodejs10
schema-design10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
versioning9
orm9
testing8
documentation8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/mongoose
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
MongoDB object modeling designed to work in an asynchronous environment.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Csaba focused on enhancing the Mongoose library's functionality related to schema versioning. Their contributions include allowing explicit exclusion of paths from versioning, documenting the new `skipVersioning` option, and fixing an associated test. Furthermore, they addressed minor issues by correcting typos in the documentation. These changes indicate involvement in the core logic and maintainability of the library.
pythonasynchronousmongoodmmodeling
csabapalfi/slackcat
Apr 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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