Summary
Csongor Zalatnai is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience, currently delivering contract Scala solutions and preferring Scala 3 with the cats-effect ecosystem. Based in London, he brings a strong background in distributed microservices, cloud-native AWS architectures, and pragmatic TDD/BDD practices from roles at Equal Experts, Sky Betting & Gaming, and MoneySuperMarket. He has repeatedly led migrations and platform work across payments, eCommerce and digital government services, pairing Java and Kotlin expertise with functional programming influences (Arrow, cats-effect). Comfortable both as a hands-on developer and technical lead, he has a track record of introducing Agile and robust engineering practices to teams. His academic foundation (MSc/BSc from the University of Szeged) underpins a disciplined approach to system design and long-lived maintainable code. Notably, he prefers cutting-edge Scala 3 tooling in production—an uncommon choice that signals a commitment to functional, type-safe code in real-world systems.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, Excellent, BSc, Computer Science, Excellent at University of Szeged
Hungarian, English, Spanish