Lajos Gathy
Principal Software Engineer at Marks and Spencer
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLajos Gathy is a Principal Software Engineer and former CTO who combines over a decade of hands-on experience in cloud-native and distributed systems with founder-level product sensibility. He has led engineering teams at Google and Marks & Spencer, consulted on enterprise APIs and IoT solutions, and ran Doctusoft’s technical strategy before turning to high-impact freelance and consulting engagements. Deeply versed in Domain-Driven Design, microservices and performance tuning, he is also an active contributor to Micronaut core, improving reactive instrumentation and MDC propagation in a widely used JVM framework. Comfortable operating between architecture and code, he favors modular designs, code reuse and agile practices to deliver scalable, maintainable systems. Based in Stony Stratford, he brings a practiced balance of academic rigor (graduated with honours) and practical, cross-border delivery experience.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University Degree with Honours Technical Informatics, University Degree with Honours Technical Informatics at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
English
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Github Skills (18)
kotlin10
groovy10
testing10
instrumentation10
micronaut10
java10
javas10
spock10
error-handling10
reactive-programming10
microservices-application9
microservices9
cloud-native8
nullable6
wicket6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
micronaut-projects/micronaut-core
Dec 2019 - Jul 2021
Micronaut Application Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 29 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Lajos primarily focused on improving the Micronaut application framework by addressing documentation issues related to error handling and instrumentation of reactive components. They corrected missing attributes in code snippets for various languages (Java, Kotlin, Groovy), ensuring the examples aligned with the framework's expected behavior. Furthermore, the user implemented and refined instrumentation for reactive operations, aiming to protect against chained invocation side-effects and ensuring MDC context propagation in server filters. The contributions include the addition of unit and integration tests for the fixes and improvements.
groovyserverlessmicronautframeworkkotlin
Tesco/micronaut-core
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
Micronaut Application Framework
Contributions:41 pushes, 19 branches, 10 tags in 1 year 3 months
micronautframeworkapplication-frameworkmicroservicesjava
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