Summary
Dániel Vankó is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience focused on backend systems and a current role on the Apache Impala team at Cloudera, contributing upstream and to commercial products. He has strong C expertise from developing 4G/5G node backends at Ericsson, complemented by Python, bash, and test automation experience. Comfortable keeping a system-level overview while diving into implementation details, he pairs curiosity-driven rapid learning with a disciplined, detail-oriented work style. His background spans industry and academia—BS in Computer Science and an MS in Biomedical Engineering—plus teaching and mentoring roles guiding programming labs. Outside software he brings rule-making and high-stakes split-second decision skills from years as a football official, an unusual discipline that sharpens attention under pressure. Based in Budapest, he is open to cross-domain challenges and continues to grow through open-source collaboration and product-facing engineering.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
German, Hungarian, English