László Szemere
Senior DevOps Engineer at Continental
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolLászló Szemere is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Budapest with eight years of experience bridging software development and infrastructure. He began his career as a software engineer at Nokia and One Identity before moving into DevOps at Continental, combining coding discipline with production-focused automation. His open-source contributions to the widely used syslog-ng project emphasize containerization and pragmatic build improvements—adding distro support, refactoring Dockerfiles, and creating utilities like a "fake sudo" for containers. Comfortable across CI/CD, Docker, and Linux packaging, he excels at turning fragile build pipelines into reproducible, maintainable systems. Colleagues rely on him for practical, low-friction solutions that keep complex logging and deployment workflows running reliably.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Github Skills (11)
automation10
automations10
docker10
automation-testing10
devops10
dockers10
ubuntu8
debian7
centos5
c174
c114
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
syslog-ng/syslog-ng
Nov 2017 - Oct 2021
syslog-ng is an enhanced log daemon, supporting a wide range of input and output methods: syslog, unstructured text, queueing, SQL & NoSQL.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:132 reviews, 266 commits, 178 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:László's contributions primarily focused on building and maintaining the build and deployment processes for the `syslog-ng` project, specifically within a Docker environment. Their work included adding support for Ubuntu Trusty within the build system, creating a "fake sudo" command for container use, and refactoring the Dockerfiles to streamline package management. These changes aimed to improve the containerization and build processes.
syslog-ngpythonnosqlelasticdaemon
szemere/syslog-ng
Jan 2018 - Dec 2021
syslog-ng is an enhanced log daemon, supporting a wide range of input and output methods: syslog, unstructured text, queueing, SQL & NoSQL.
Contributions:11 PRs, 609 pushes, 104 branches in 3 years 11 months
syslog-ngnosqldaemonsqllinux
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