István Pásztor
Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIstván Pásztor is a Platform Engineer in London with 12 years of experience building distributed systems and backend architectures using Go, Python and C++. He has designed production-grade operators and backend services—most recently implementing a Kubernetes operator for VoltDB and building platform tooling at Deliveroo. His background spans high-throughput financial and retail systems where his Go services improved inventory accuracy and enabled large-scale speech-to-text ingestion for NLP workflows. A pragmatic engineer, he pairs low-level C++ optimization experience from game engine work with cloud-native practices across AWS, GCP, Docker and Kubernetes. István is an active open-source contributor focused on testing and documentation—improving robustness in the widely used golang/mock project and writing tutorials for uWSGI C++ plugins. He brings a pattern-oriented mindset that turns complex integration challenges into maintainable, automated platform solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsInformation Technology, Information Technology at University of Szeged
English, Hungarian
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Github Skills (23)
c-language10
restructuredtext10
mockk10
uwsgi10
testing10
mocks10
go10
mocker10
mocking10
cprogramming-language10
documentation10
test-automation10
plugin-development9
cygwin7
imp6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
golang/mock
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 26 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:István primarily contributed to the project by implementing and enhancing testing procedures within the GoMock framework. This includes adding new tests for specific scenarios, such as detecting self-prerequisites in call orders and potential argument name conflicts. Furthermore, the user added integration tests to ensure the correct functioning of generated mock code, focusing on identifier collision resolution. These contributions are aimed at improving the reliability and robustness of the mocking framework.
golangtestingmocksmockinggomock
unbit/uwsgi-docs
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Official uWSGI docs, examples, tutorials, tips and tricks
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:István's contributions primarily focused on creating and updating documentation for the uWSGI project, specifically concerning the implementation of a C++ plugin for the fastrouter. The user wrote a tutorial demonstrating the plugin's setup, configuration, and usage, including code examples and build instructions. They also addressed minor formatting and grammatical issues within the documentation to improve clarity and readability.
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