Krisztian Fekete
Principal Software Engineer, R&D 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
10 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 (66)
api-management10
controller10
opentelemetry-collector10
security10
consul10
bcc10
istio10
opentelemetry10
kong10
serverless10
microservices10
cloud-native10
tempo10
monitoring10
service-mesh10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
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
krisztianfekete/opentelemetry-helm-charts
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
OpenTelemetry Helm Charts
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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