József Makai
SRE-SWE at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolJózsef Makai is an SRE-SWE based in Zurich with nine years of experience building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems, currently at Google after multi-year engineering roles at CERN. He holds an MSc in Computer Engineering from Budapest University of Technology and Economics and combines deep expertise in C++ (including modern standards), algorithms, parallel programming, storage systems and databases with a strong focus on software verification and quality. His work spans production storage for LHC experiments (EOS) and critical machine protection systems, giving him rare experience in both high-performance data infrastructure and safety-critical software. He also contributes to open-source DevOps tooling—improving Debian packaging and CI reliability for the widely used XRootD project—showing attention to reproducible deployment and release engineering. Practical, detail-oriented and research-trained, he drives robust, verifiable solutions in complex distributed environments.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Budapesti Mûszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem
English, German, Hungarian, French
Github Skills (7)
debian-packaging10
bash10
scripting10
cicd10
gnupg8
pg8
x7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
xrootd/xrootd
Jul 2017 - May 2018
XRootD official repository https://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=XRootD
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:29 commits, 22 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:József's contributions primarily focused on modifying and maintaining the Debian packaging scripts used within the XRootD project's Continuous Integration (CI) system. They addressed issues in the existing scripts, including fixing comparison errors, ensuring proper return codes, and adding support for new Debian distributions like Ubuntu 16 and Bionic. The user also improved the reliability of the packaging process by adding checks for the existence of release files before deletion.
tarballxrootdstorageaixdistributed-file-system
jmakai/xrootd
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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