Krisztian Fekete
Senior Principal Software Engineer at solo.io
Hungary
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Top SchoolKrisztian Fekete is a Principal Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native networking, observability and systems reliability, now leading R&D at solo.io after progressing from field engineering. He has hands-on experience operating video streaming clusters and building scalable monitoring and telemetry platforms—at LastPass he led Thanos adoption and NGINX metric extensions that materially reduced 95th-percentile latency during peak traffic. His background spans infrastructure, eBPF work, OpenTelemetry pipelines and service mesh/API gateway implementations for startups and enterprises, and he regularly shares expertise at conferences across Europe. Comfortable both in on-call production settings and in customer-facing proof-of-concept engagements, he combines deep operational instincts with product-focused engineering. An early career in live broadcasting gives him practical multimedia and systems sensibilities that inform his work on high-throughput streaming and observability solutions.
4 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsGrad, Software Engineer, Grad, Software Engineer at Jedlik Ányos Secondary School of Mechanical Engineering and Information Technology
Hungarian, English
Github Skills (78)
api-management10
opentelemetry-collector10
security10
consul10
istio10
opentelemetry10
serverless10
microservices10
cloud-native10
monitoring10
service-mesh10
linux10
fault-injection10
ai10
proxies10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
krisztianfekete/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Mar 2025 - Jul 2026
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Contributions:30 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
krisztianfekete/bumblebee
May 2022 - Jun 2024
Get eBPF programs running from the cloud to the kernel in 1 line of bash
Contributions:9 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
kernelebpf-programslinuxebpfbash
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