Máté Szalay-bekő
Engineering Manager at The Apache Software Foundation
Budapest, Central Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolMáté Szalay-bekő is an engineering manager at Cloudera with a decade of experience building and stabilizing distributed systems and big-data platforms. He combines hands-on backend expertise—demonstrated by sustained contributions and committer status on flagship Apache projects like ZooKeeper and HBase—with leadership roles spanning staff engineer to manager. His open-source work focuses on hardening reliability (fixing flaky tests, leader-election edge cases) and improving security and performance in mission-critical infrastructure. With a PhD in bioinformatics and an early career in telecom and bioinformatics engineering, he brings a rare blend of research rigor and production-grade software craftsmanship. Based in Budapest, he also serves on the ZooKeeper PMC and teaches IT, signaling a commitment to community and mentorship.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's & Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's & Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics at University of SzegedHigh School, High School at Lovassy László Secondary Grammar School
German, Hungarian, English
Github Skills (16)
javas10
databases10
hbase10
distributed-systems10
ssl10
tls1210
tls1310
java10
database10
testing10
thrift9
concurrency9
security9
rest9
configuration-management7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/zookeeper
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Apache ZooKeeper
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:162 reviews, 104 commits, 92 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Máté primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the stability of the Apache ZooKeeper project. Their contributions included addressing issues related to socket implementations on specific JDK versions, fixing flaky tests, and handling potential errors within the leader election process. They also made changes to improve the performance of metrics collection and latency measurements. These contributions directly improved the reliability and robustness of ZooKeeper.
apache-zookeeperzookeeperdatabasejavaapache
apache/hbase
Jul 2019 - Jun 2021
Apache HBase
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 33 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Máté's contributions primarily involve enhancing the Apache HBase project's functionality and maintainability. They fixed a flaky test related to MetaTableMetrics, improving the reliability of the system. Furthermore, they added configuration options to make keystore types configurable for REST and Thrift servers, enabling SSL/TLS flexibility. Additional contributions focused on enabling control over excluded cipher suites for various web UIs, improving the security posture of the HBase project.
hbasedatabasejava
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