Gergely Daróczi
Founder at Spare Cores
Hungary
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Top SchoolGergely Daróczi is a founder and seasoned data/DevOps engineer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native systems, data pipelines, and startups in healthtech and SaaS. Trained as a sociologist (PhD) and a former assistant professor, he blends rigorous research thinking with hands-on automation and infrastructure work, favoring reproducible workflows in R and Python. As co-founder/CTO of Rx Studio and founder of Spare Cores, he’s led data operations and product engineering teams across academia and industry, including a Senior Director role at System1. An active open-source maintainer and ggplot2 contributor, he authored a custom theme for ggthemes and maintains a dozen packages plus a book, championing community building as founder of the Hungarian R User Group and organizer of satRday and eRum. Based in Hungary, he balances entrepreneurial breadth with deep technical craft — and is also a husband and father of four.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University College LondonPhD Sociology, PhD Sociology at Corvinus University of BudapestMA Sociology, MA Sociology at Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem
Hungarian, r, English, French, Latin
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Github Skills (30)
data-visualizations10
custom-theme10
wordpress-themes10
r10
data-visualisation10
plot10
knitr10
package10
rmarkdown10
data-visualization10
ggplot10
mysql9
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
jrnold/ggthemes
Sep 2014 - Sep 2014
Additional themes, scales, and geoms for ggplot2
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:13 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gergely significantly contributed to the `ggthemes` repository by implementing a custom ggplot2 theme named `theme_pander`. Their work focused on enhancing the visual customization options of this theme by adding features like disabling grids, controlling grid line types, and suppressing plot margins. Furthermore, they incorporated font customization and introduced a color palette and color scale functions, improving the overall aesthetic control within the ggplot2 framework for data visualization.
scalesggplot2plotadditionaldata-visualisation
daroczig/singR
Dec 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
songshelper-functions
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