Máté Szabó
Software Engineer at Fandom
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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SeniorMáté Szabó is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining large-scale web platforms, currently working on PHP monoliths, Java (JAX-RS) microservices and Node.js apps running in Kubernetes at Slack (formerly Fandom/Wikia). He began as a volunteer developer for MediaWiki and grew into sustaining engineering and product teams, pairing hands-on backend work with operational ownership of CI and observability stacks (OpenTracing/Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana). His open-source contributions span high-profile projects like MediaWiki, SemanticMediaWiki and HHVM, focusing on bug fixes, performance, and build-system reliability. Comfortable across languages and runtime environments, he has a knack for stabilizing legacy systems while modernizing code and instrumentation. An uncommon thread through his career is deep familiarity with both gameplay mechanics (mod work on Combat Extended for RimWorld) and large collaborative knowledge platforms, reflecting a practical, user-focused approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
English, Hungarian
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Github Skills (22)
debug10
mediawiki10
c-language10
back-end-development10
build-system10
cmake10
semantic-mediawiki10
refactor10
phpunit10
php10
performance-optimization10
dotnet-core10
database-management10
refactoring10
game-development10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
CombatExtended-Continued/CombatExtended
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Combat Extended mod for RimWorld
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 46 commits, 64 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Máté primarily contributed to bug fixes and optimizations within the Combat Extended mod for RimWorld. Their work focused on addressing issues related to melee combat, turret reloading, and projectile behavior, including fixing potential loops and preventing unexpected outcomes. They also made improvements to damage calculations, such as increasing explosion armor penetration and scaling projectile damage based on weapon quality. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the core gameplay mechanics and stability of the mod.
combatextendedmodmoddingrimworld
SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki
Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
🔗 Semantic MediaWiki turns MediaWiki into a knowledge management platform with query and export capabilities
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 6 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Máté focused on fixing and updating code within the Semantic MediaWiki project. Their contributions included refactoring code to align with modern PHP syntax by replacing deprecated array offset access, addressing issues with functions, and adjusting conditional statements in the code. They also improved the system by caching revisions and optimizing high-volume database queries with the use of replica databases.
smwcollaborationmediawiki-extensionknowledge-graphsemantic-web
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