Krisztián Szabó
Founding Engineer at Marketer.com
Budapest, Hungary
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Top SchoolKrisztián Szabó is a founding engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building resilient SaaS platforms, data infrastructure, and developer tooling from Budapest. He has led architecture and backend work in Clojure-heavy stacks—most recently enabling automated Shopify marketing workflows at Marketer.com and founding Schemamap—while previously delivering a production-grade ERP for the Swiss meat industry that included NP-hard optimization and EDI integrations. Deeply pragmatic about developer experience, he champions reproducible builds and CI/CD improvements, contributing to notable Nix-based projects like cachix/devenv and process-compose to streamline developer environments. Comfortable switching between product strategy and low-level systems, he pairs operational rigor (Nix, Terraform, PostgreSQL) with a knack for reducing cognitive load and accelerating idea-to-code cycles. Colleagues describe him as a force multiplier who optimizes teams as much as systems, bringing both startup grit and enterprise-grade delivery experience.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Eötvös Loránd University
English, German, Hungarian
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Github Skills (29)
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nix10
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dockers10
cicd10
go10
build-automation10
golang10
devops10
nixpkgs9
orchestration9
orchestra9
workflow-automation8
process-monitoring8
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
F1bonacc1/process-compose
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Process Compose is a simple and flexible scheduler and orchestrator to manage non-containerized applications.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Krisztián focused on enhancing the build and deployment process for the process-compose project, specifically through Nix package management. They introduced Nix flake support, improved build instructions, and automated shell completion installation via Nix. Additionally, the user updated the Nix configuration to work with newer versions of Nix, reflecting their understanding of the build toolchain. Further updates incorporated changes as the package was added to nixpkgs.
golangcontainersorchestrationorchestratorscheduler
cachix/devenv
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:43 reviews, 37 commits, 13 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Krisztián primarily focused on improving the infrastructure and build processes within the `cachix/devenv` repository. Their commits demonstrate a focus on integrating and configuring process management tools like `process-compose`, and implementing improvements to the build environment by fixing missing environment variables and improving the `mkNakedShell` module to include common compilation lookup paths. Further contributions included enhancements to the integration of various Nix-related build steps, with a focus on build environment reproducibility and CI/CD optimization. The user also worked on integrating new features like enabling Ruby and Minio for development environments.
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