Lehel Iszlai
Technical Lead at Upvest
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolLehel Iszlai is a technical lead and engineering manager with 11 years of experience building backend and distributed systems from Budapest. He currently leads Governance and Treasury engineering at Upvest, owning systems that record, persist and expose audit-worthy product and operations data while coaching and growing his team. Previously he held technical leadership and engineering roles at TransferWise and Plum, and cut his teeth on low-latency, finance-focused systems at Morgan Stanley. Lehel blends hands-on backend design with people leadership, emphasizing reliable, auditable services in regulated domains. His background in test automation and a comprehensive early training in finance and multiple languages gives him a pragmatic edge when bridging product, ops and compliance. He’s known for turning complex domain requirements into maintainable architectures that scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Bolyai Farkas High SchoolUniversitatea Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca
Hungarian, Romanian, English, German
Github Skills (81)
flask10
wsgi9
pyramid9
webapp9
python9
steroids9
bottle9
chrome-extension9
micro-framework8
web-development8
webserver8
heroku8
nginx8
docker8
php8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
iszlai/iszlai.github.io
Sep 2014 - Apr 2020
Contributions:91 commits, 61 pushes in 5 years 8 months
iszlai/The-BALL
Jun 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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