Laszlo Merczel
Staff Software Engineer at Cloudera
Szeged, Hungary
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Top SchoolLaszlo Merczel is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building backend systems and integrations, currently driving platform work at Cloudera after leadership roles at EPAM. He specializes in infrastructure-facing engineering—API design, cloud integrations and identity tooling—evidenced by contributions that improved FreeIPA and image catalog APIs in the widely used Cloudbreak project. Comfortable leading teams and shipping production-grade systems, he started his career in telecom and industrial automation and brings pragmatic, long-term thinking to complex distributed systems. A lifelong tinkerer and maker (YouTuber, 3D printing and IoT enthusiast), he pairs hands-on hobbyist curiosity with disciplined enterprise engineering from his base in Szeged, Hungary.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at Szegedi Tudományegyetem
English, Hungarian, German
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Github Skills (18)
apidoc10
java10
javas10
api10
freeipa10
cloud-computing9
hadoop8
deploying7
big-data7
maven6
eclipse6
timestamp6
sql6
spring6
hashmap6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hortonworks/cloudbreak
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
CDP Public Cloud is an integrated analytics and data management platform deployed on cloud services. It offers broad data analytics and artificial intelligence functionality along with secure user access and data governance features.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 reviews, 42 commits, 50 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Laszlo's primary focus was on improving the FreeIPA integration within the Cloudbreak platform. Their contributions involved fixing issues related to the FreeIPA pillar and the implementation of new API endpoints related to image catalog management. The user also made changes to support the use of CCMV2 and added missing parameters in image catalog responses, improving the functionality and stability of the system. These changes indicate a focus on the underlying infrastructure and API integrations.
data-management-platformcdp-public-cloudsecurecloud-servicesdata-management
TheTinkerDad/sensible
Jul 2020 - Aug 2023
A small tool that provides monitoring for your Linux server, Docker or LXC container, Raspberry Pi, etc. via Home Assistant sensors and MQTT discovery.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 years 1 month
home-assistanthome-automationiotmonitoringmqtt
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