Janos Matyas
Head Of R&D, Co-Founder at The Apache Software Foundation
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolJanos Matyas is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 11+ years building cloud-native distributed systems and platform infrastructure, currently Head of R&D and Co‑Founder at Riptides in Budapest. He co-founded and led engineering at Banzai Cloud (acquired by Cisco) and later served as Principal Software Engineer at Cisco, blending startup agility with enterprise-scale delivery. A long-time Apache committer and CNCF contributor, his hands-on open source work includes infrastructure for Kubernetes (kubicorn) and the Banzai Pipeline, with practical improvements around AWS bootstrapping, spot instances, IAM profiles and Helm integrations. He combines deep architecture skills in fault tolerance and cluster lifecycle management with a product mindset that turns operational challenges into repeatable platform features. Based on a MSc in distributed computing, Janos pairs R&D leadership with active coding and community stewardship. Outside of engineering he’s an avid freeskier and surfer, reflecting a taste for calculated risk and momentum both on slopes and in systems design.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science Distributed computing, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science Distributed computing at Universitatea „Politehnica” din Timișoara
Hungarian, English, Romanian, Spanish
Github Skills (29)
container-management10
kubernetes10
cloud-computing10
scripting10
charts10
containerization10
cicd10
script10
infrastructure10
go10
aws10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
sh10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
banzaicloud/banzai-charts
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
Curated list of Banzai Cloud Helm charts used by the Pipeline Platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 67 commits, 228 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Janos primarily focused on creating and updating shell scripts for bootstrapping Kubernetes clusters on AWS using `kubeadm` and `helm`. They configured the Kubernetes environment, integrated AWS cloud provider settings, and automated the deployment of essential components like the weave network. The commits involved modifying scripts to fix node connections, remove unnecessary installations, and deploy charts within the cluster, demonstrating a focus on cluster lifecycle management.
helmkubernetescharts
kubicorn/kubicorn
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Simple, cloud native infrastructure for Kubernetes.
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:31 commits, 21 PRs, 41 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Janos primarily contributed to the infrastructure aspects of the Kubernetes project. Their work included modifying bootstrap scripts, fixing cluster creation and update processes, adding support for spot prices, and externalizing cloud provider configurations, specifically for AWS. They also addressed timeout issues and integrated IAM instance profiles for enhanced security and management.
cloud-nativekubernetesinfrastructureclustersnapshot
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