Ferenc Szabó
Senior Software Engineer at Tesco Technology
Hungary
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Top SchoolFerenc Szabó is a Senior Software Engineer based in Hungary with 11 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and microservices across retail and data platforms. He has a strong Java background—contributing bug fixes and feature enhancements to the widely used Apache Flume project, including an HBase2 sink and Kafka-related improvements—demonstrating comfort with distributed logging and streaming infrastructure. His career spans roles at Tesco Technology, Cloudera, BetVictor and EPAM, moving from PHP and frontend work into enterprise backend and cloud-native architectures. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he blends legacy-system fluency with modern Spring-based microservices and REST design. Ferenc’s trajectory shows a steady shift from application-level engineering to platform-focused backend work, making him effective at both shipping features and stabilizing production systems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
English, German
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Github Skills (7)
javas10
flume10
apache10
java10
kafka9
hbase9
logging8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/logging-flume
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log-like data
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 34 PRs, 5 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ferenc primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Apache Flume project, focusing on Java code. Their commits addressed issues related to file permissions, JMS source connectivity, and file deletion handling within the taildir source. The user also implemented a new HBase2 sink and improved the codebase by addressing exceptions and adding message offset headers for the Kafka source. Further enhancements included SLF4J logging implementations.
apachebig-dataflumejavaapache-flume
szaboferee/esprimaPHP
Dec 2014 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 release, 36 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 10 months
phpesprimaphp-port
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