Mark Szabo
Senior Software Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Szabo is a senior software engineer and enterprise architect with 11 years of experience building cloud-first, secure, scalable systems across media, enterprise and industrial domains. He cut his teeth at Microsoft in roles from Program Manager to Cloud Solution Architect, then led mixed-reality platform and product delivery as CTO at Holoindustry before shaping RTL’s architecture and governance for streaming at scale. Now at DuckDuckGo, he blends hands-on development, security-minded engineering and strategic architecture to modernize platforms and drive operational excellence. A practical full-stack contributor, he has worked on well-known open-source projects like the fbctf CTF platform—adding localization and cross-cutting fixes—and regularly mentors developers and speaks on AI, Mixed Reality and Quantum topics. Notably, he has a track record of turning PoCs into production systems still running years later, demonstrating both technical depth and delivery focus. Based in Budapest, he combines startup agility with enterprise rigor to deliver measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Obuda University
English, Hungarian
Github Skills (12)
php10
ctf10
internationalization9
hacking9
configuration-management8
front-end-development8
sql7
tsql7
sql-database7
database7
databases7
javascript6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/fbctf
May 2016 - Sep 2016
Platform to host Capture the Flag competitions
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 16 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the project. They fixed an hh_client error, indicating involvement with the codebase and potentially server-side tasks. The user also added internationalization features and modified language files, demonstrating work on user interface and localization. Furthermore, they implemented minor modifications across various project components, including modal controllers, gameboard modules, and configuration settings, highlighting a broad understanding of the system.
capture-the-flagctfhostctf-framework
markszabo/markszabo.github.io
Aug 2019 - Mar 2025
My personal blog
Contributions:1 review, 74 PRs, 179 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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