Istvan Hoka
Independent Contractor at Lemon.io
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIstvan Hoka is a Site Reliability Engineer and seasoned technology leader with 17 years of experience building and scaling web platforms from prototype to production. Based in London, he has led technical transformations and architecture work across retail and SaaS businesses, notably driving platform modernization and CI/CD at Builder.ai to enable hundreds of daily deployments. His background spans hands-on engineering, CTO and founder roles, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver stack-agnostic platforms across Ruby/Rails, Python, Node and React ecosystems. He combines pragmatic system design with an eye for developer experience—creating tooling that cut onboarding from days to minutes and automated component maintenance via GenAI. Equally comfortable shipping features and shaping long-term architecture, he brings entrepreneurial instinct from multiple founder/owner roles alongside deep operational discipline. A detail that often surprises colleagues: he pairs large-scale reliability work with active investment and trading ventures, reflecting both technical and commercial fluency.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer science and information systems, Bachelor's degree Computer science and information systems at Technical University of Cluj NapocaColegiului Naţional "Gheorghe Lazăr" Sibiu
English, Romanian, English
Github Skills (31)
paperclip9
html8
ruby8
testing8
agentic7
rails7
mvc7
git-workflow7
decorators7
activerecord6
ruby-on-rails6
claude6
homebrew6
cloud-services6
image-url6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
doublewide/wprapper
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:3 PRs, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
ihoka/viewtastic
Nov 2009 - Sep 2010
Contributions:14 commits in 9 months
ruby-on-railsrailspresenterrubyruby-on
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