Károly Nagy
Principal Database Engineer
Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolKároly Nagy is a Principal Database Engineer and cloud infrastructure architect with 14 years of hands-on experience building and hardening large-scale database platforms across AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. He has repeatedly driven cost and performance improvements—most recently delivering 50% lower resource use, five nines uptime, and a 45% recurring cost reduction at MuleSoft while standardising database operations and compliance tooling. His background spans marquee engineering organizations (Facebook, Salesforce, Dropbox, Booking.com) where he led migrations, observability initiatives and self-healing automation for thousands of servers. Károly blends deep MySQL/PostgreSQL expertise with practical security and compliance automation, and is particularly skilled at turning audit and performance findings into step-by-step runbooks for teams. Based in the Netherlands, he pairs strategic architecture decisions with hands-on implementation and a knack for uncovering non-obvious optimization opportunities across complex distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
English, German, French, Dutch, Hungarian
Stackoverflow
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166kreached
58answers
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mysql
top-5%
Github Skills (18)
mysql9
swift6
buffered6
php6
sql6
sudo6
aio6
ansible6
linux6
planets6
apache6
ubuntu6
python3
faunadb3
fluentd3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
charlesnagy/web-toolkit
Apr 2012 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 10 months
charlesnagy/sunburnt
Oct 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
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