Péter Kókai
Senior Software Engineer at Nokia
Hungary
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Top SchoolPéter Kókai is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and modernizing backend and cloud-native systems, currently contributing at Nokia from Hungary. He has deep C/C++ expertise applied to telecom-grade products and log management, having driven the cloud transformation of TAS and containerized O&M data pipelines with ELK and Kafka. As a longtime contributor and former lead on the syslog-ng project, he’s improved stability and messaging integrations for RabbitMQ and Kafka while refining build systems and deployment modules. Péter blends hands-on systems engineering with mentorship and tooling ownership, often acting as component guardian, git admin and trainer. He’s comfortable moving between low-level protocol work and higher-level orchestration, a background that helps him convert legacy TNSDL/C codebases into cloud-ready architectures.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Programming, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Programming at Eötvös Loránd University
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Github Skills (25)
configuration-management10
kafka10
c1110
c1710
system10
sys10
networking9
build-automation9
javas8
cmake8
java8
c-language7
cprogramming-language7
sh6
shell6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
syslog-ng/syslog-ng
Aug 2017 - Aug 2022
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 & System Engineer
Back-end Developer & System EngineerContributions:421 reviews, 962 commits, 533 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Péter primarily contributed to the syslog-ng project by addressing compilation errors and incorporating updates for RabbitMQ and Kafka destination modules. The changes involved modifying code related to AMQP and Java destination, and ensuring proper functioning and handling of messages in an efficient way. Additionally, the user improved the project's build system, adding new functionalities for the different module parts. The modifications also included the improvement of a few misspelled words and enhanced various features of the system, contributing to the overall stability and efficiency of the software.
syslog-ngpythonnosqlelasticdaemon
Kokan/presentations
Jan 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 10 months
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