Hunor Kovács
Engineering Manager at Chili Piper
Budapest, Central Hungary
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Top SchoolHunor Kovács is an Engineering Manager based in Budapest with 13 years of experience designing, architecting and delivering resilient, event-driven distributed systems. He brings hands-on expertise in Scala, Go and Java, with a strong focus on concurrency, async message-passing and fault-tolerant streaming architectures. After senior engineering roles at Amazon, Hiya and Financial Times, he now leads engineering and delivery at Chili Piper while still contributing as a senior individual contributor. Known for blending practical system design with team coaching, he drives typed, reactive solutions that scale under real-world load. His background includes cross-border study in Spain and Romania, reflecting a readiness to bridge engineering, product and international teams.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Technical University of Cluj NapocaGraduation Mathematics and Informatics, Graduation Mathematics and Informatics at Márton Áron Gimnázium
Hungarian, Romanian, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,204reputation
256kreached
15answers
24questions
Github Skills (200)
pluggable10
http10
closed10
http-client10
scala-native10
jsonpath10
api10
sbt-docker10
sbt-plugin10
sbt10
scala10
http-server10
packager10
jq10
kinesis-stream10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Financial-Times/up-service-files
Sep 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:198 PRs, 824 pushes, 162 branches in 2 years 5 months
kovacshuni/koauth
Jun 2014 - Sep 2021
:closed_lock_with_key: OAuth 1.0a provider and consumer library for Scala & Java, storage independent/pluggable, async/reactive, designed to be used within a completely RESTful API.
Contributions:4 releases, 189 commits, 6 PRs in 7 years 4 months
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