Máté Farkas
Software Engineer Manager II at One Identity
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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RockstarMáté Farkas is a seasoned software engineering leader with 17 years of experience, currently serving as Software Engineer Manager II at One Identity and leading agile teams since his time as Agile Team Leader at Balabit. Based in Budapest, he combines hands-on backend development and strong QA/test automation expertise, having improved testing infrastructure and expanded test runners for notable open-source projects like nushell. His contributions to syslog-ng show a pragmatic focus on code quality—refactoring, bug fixes, unit tests, and configuration grammar improvements—that keep mission-critical logging systems stable. Comfortable bridging engineering and management, he emphasizes maintainability and reliability while mentoring teams to deliver robust production software. A detail-minded practitioner, he frequently turns tedious edge-case work (test asserts, setup/teardown flows, cloning fixes) into long-term engineering leverage.
17 years of coding experience
English, Hungarian
Github Skills (11)
c1710
testing10
configuration-management10
logging10
rust10
c1110
test-automation10
syslog10
shell9
unit-testing9
python3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
syslog-ng/syslog-ng
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
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:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 56 PRs, 14 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Máté primarily contributed to the `syslog-ng` project by fixing bugs and enhancing the codebase. Their contributions included fixing links in documentation, extracting and refactoring code, and adding unit tests. They also addressed issues in modules like `add-contextual-data` and `basicfuncs`, fixing cloning functions, and improving code stability. They also worked on configuration grammar.
syslog-ngpythonnosqlelasticdaemon
nushell/nushell
Mar 2023 - Feb 2024
A new type of shell
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 15 PRs, 107 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Máté primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and test coverage for the nushell project. They implemented various assert commands, including `assert error`, `assert equal`, `assert not equal`, and others, to improve the robustness of the test suite. Additionally, the user introduced features like test skipping, setup and teardown commands, and extended the test runner's capabilities for more flexible testing. Their work demonstrates a focus on improving the reliability and maintainability of the codebase through comprehensive testing practices.
rusttype-ofshellbash
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