Krisztián Gacsal
Sotware Engineer at OpenMeter
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolKrisztián Gacsal is a software engineer based in Budapest with nine years of experience building cloud-native systems, SRE practices, and backend services. He has progressively moved from systems and infrastructure roles into engineering leadership and software development, most recently joining OpenMeter after a technical leadership stint at Cisco and hands-on operator work at Banzai Cloud. Comfortable with Rust and Go, he contributes to notable open-source projects like banzaicloud/koperator, improving Kafka operator compatibility and Kubernetes integrations. Krisztián blends DevOps rigor with backend engineering, focusing on maintainable configuration handling and dependency modernization. His background includes formal training from Obuda University and an MITx certificate, reflecting a mix of practical production experience and continued learning. An interesting thread through his career is consistently shipping reliability improvements for distributed systems at both startups and large enterprises.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Obuda University, Kálmán Kandó Faculty of Electrical EngineeringCertificate issued by edX under the name of MITx Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Certificate issued by edX under the name of MITx Introduction to Computer Science and Programming at MITx
Hungarian, English
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
kafka10
docker10
go10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
testing9
cicd8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
banzaicloud/koperator
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
Oh no! Yet another Apache Kafka operator for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:121 reviews, 21 commits, 45 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Krisztián primarily contributed to the maintenance and enhancement of the `koperator` project. Their commits demonstrate a focus on updating dependencies, particularly for Cruise Control, and refactoring the codebase to leverage a properties library for handling configurations. The user also addressed configuration defaults and improved test assertions. Furthermore, the user implemented support for Kubernetes v1.23 and cluster registry integration, indicating a focus on ensuring the operator's compatibility and operability.
apache-kafkaoh-noapacheoperatorcruisecontrol
banzaicloud/go-cruise-control
Jan 2022 - Oct 2024
It's client library written in Golang for interacting with Linkedin Cruise Control using its HTTP API.
Contributions:4 releases, 107 reviews, 96 PRs in 2 years 9 months
golangapicruise-controlclient-librarylinkedin
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