István Nagy
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarIstván Nagy is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with two decades of experience designing and operating large-scale, high-performance distributed systems. He builds cloud-native platforms and orchestration logic—most recently leading development of a serverless platform to run the Elastic Stack on Kubernetes—and previously improved orchestration across 50+ regions to raise routine operation success from 60% to 97%. Comfortable across back-end, DevOps and full-stack domains, he has driven cross-team projects at PagerDuty using Kafka, Elixir, Scala and React and contributed to Elastic's open-source Cloud-on-K8s operator by hardening Elasticsearch configuration validation and testing infrastructure. Known for turning complex requirements into reliable production systems, he pairs deep systems and C++ roots with modern cloud-native practices and a track record of patent-backed architecture work from his Nokia tenure.
3 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
Github Skills (13)
amazon-elasticsearch10
kubernetes10
elasticsearchquery10
elasticsearch10
kubernetes-operator10
go10
aws-elasticsearch10
kubernetes-pods10
elasticsearch-api10
testing10
dockers9
docker9
yaml8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/cloud-on-k8s
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 33 reviews, 57 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:István's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) project. They focused on improving the configuration and validation of Elasticsearch settings, specifically regarding client authentication, by adding new validation rules and tests. They also worked on updating and maintaining the project's testing infrastructure, including support for newer Kibana versions and the modification of the deployer script for cross-platform compatibility. Further contributions included version bumps for the stack, helm chart versions, and operator version.
kubernetes-operatorselastickibanakuberneteselasticsearch
rhr323/cloud-on-k8s
Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
Contributions:71 pushes, 53 branches in 1 year 9 months
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