Laszlo Gaal
Apache Impala PMC Member at The Apache Software Foundation
Budapest, Central Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolLaszlo Gaal is an experienced C++ software engineer and Apache Impala PMC member with nine years of modern experience and a long history of shipping high-quality, regulated products for worldwide audiences. He combines deep low-level engineering — from building 3D geometry modules and system control for medical imaging to optimizing build and CI tooling for the Apache Impala project — with product ownership and Scrum PO experience. Comfortable in multinational teams, he has repeatedly turned prototypes into shippable releases, led trade-show demos (RSNA), and navigated medical-device risk and regulatory requirements. At Cloudera and within Apache he focused on automating and hardening build/test pipelines (Docker toolchains, dependency management, caching and checksum fixes) to speed delivery and reduce failures. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he blends hands-on coding, DevOps/build engineering, and user-centric product direction rooted in clinical workflows. Based in Budapest, he brings rare cross-domain expertise spanning enterprise, open source, and regulated healthcare software.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
English, German
Github Skills (17)
docker10
python10
scripting10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
build-automation10
toolchain10
management10
sh10
shell10
impala10
ubuntu9
centos9
cmake9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/impala
Aug 2018 - Sep 2022
Apache Impala
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Build Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Build EngineerContributions:30 commits, 1 comment in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Laszlo's contributions center on automating the Impala build and testing processes. They implemented and modified scripts to bootstrap toolchains, manage dependencies, and configure build environments, particularly within Docker containers. Their work includes optimizing build times by caching and streamlining processes, updating testing concurrency settings, and ensuring the correct installation of build dependencies across various operating systems. They also addressed critical issues related to the toolchain by integrating updated libraries and fixing checksum validation for Maven downloads.
apache-impalaparquetolapsqlapache
gaallas/native-toolchain
Mar 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 28 branches in 7 years 3 months
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