Molnar Balint
Founding Engineer at Riptides
Budapest, Central Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolMolnar Balint is a founding engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, back-end and DevOps tooling from Budapest. He has shipped production-grade systems at companies from Hortonworks and Ericsson to Cisco and Banzai Cloud, and now leads engineering at an early-stage startup. An active Apache Kafka contributor, he’s improved core consumer APIs and stabilized internal logging behavior—work that underpins reliable streaming at scale. His open-source contributions also span Vault operators and Kubernetes logging operators, reflecting a strong focus on automation, security and observability. Comfortable moving between developer and operator roles, he brings pragmatic engineering judgment and a knack for turning infrastructure complexity into repeatable platform features.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Hungarian, English, German
Github Skills (28)
kubernetes10
docker10
controller10
kafka10
kubernetes-operator10
zookeeper10
dockers10
java10
javas10
go10
vault10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
fluent-bit10
logging10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bank-vaults/bank-vaults
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
A Vault swiss-army knife: A CLI tool to init, unseal and configure Vault (auth methods, secret engines).
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 21 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Molnar's primary contribution was developing the initial version of a new vault operator, indicated by the commit messages and code changes. This involved creating core controller logic, likely for managing and automating Vault configurations within a Kubernetes environment. The code modifications also include changes to deepcopy generation and adding supporting files for operator functionalities, signifying the user's involvement in setting up the operational aspects of the Vault integration.
authclivaultkuberneteskubernetes-secrets
kube-logging/logging-operator
Jul 2018 - Jul 2020
Logging operator for Kubernetes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 33 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Molnar primarily focused on configuring and deploying the logging operator for Kubernetes. Their contributions included fixing deployment issues with Fluent Bit, enhancing the configuration, and integrating TLS support. They also implemented a config watch mechanism and refactored the code.
kubernetesloggingoperatorcloud-nativekubernetes-operator
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