Nandor Kovacs
Front Office Software Engineer at Mizuho
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNandor Kovacs is a Front Office Software Engineer with six years of experience building backend systems for finance and blockchain firms, currently based in Stony Stratford, England. He progressed through roles at Morgan Stanley, EPAM and Capco before joining R3, where he contributed to the core Corda open-source blockchain—working on identity management, notary flows and node operation. His hands-on focus spans low-level distributed systems and production resiliency, with recent work at Mizuho bringing that blockchain and financial systems expertise into front-office engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who balances correctness with operational concerns, often improving retry and certificate-handling logic that quietly prevents incidents. Trained as a software developer at Eötvös Loránd University, he combines solid academic foundations with practical production experience across trading and crypto infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Software Developer, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Software Developer at Eötvös Loránd University
English, Hungarian
Github Skills (10)
kotlin10
distributed-ledger-technology10
distributed-ledger10
streams-api10
api10
blockchain10
corda10
streaming-api10
java9
javas9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
corda/corda
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
Corda is an open source blockchain project, designed for business from the start. Only Corda allows you to build interoperable blockchain networks that transact in strict privacy. Corda's smart contract technology allows businesses to transact directly, with value.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Nandor's contributions primarily revolve around modifications to the `PersistentIdentityService.kt` file, indicating work on identity management and certificate handling. They updated code related to streams, potentially optimizing data retrieval. Further changes include merging branches and fixing notary flow retries with updates to `NotaryServiceFlow.kt`. The user's changes show involvement with core functionality and improvements in the Corda blockchain project, especially focusing on notary service and node operation.
interoperabledltsmart-contractprivacytransact
corda/corda-runtime-os
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Corda is a scalable, permissioned peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform that enables the building of applications that foster and deliver digital trust between parties in regulated markets.
Contributions:387 reviews, 109 commits, 132 PRs in 5 months
cordacorda-next-generationdistributed-ledgerdltkotlin
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