Peter Szalai
Head Of Development at CapData
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Szalai is a Head of Development based in Budapest with 12 years of experience building data-driven platforms, SRE and ML-informed production systems. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—contributing to notable open-source projects like datahub with work on ingestion, GraphQL monitoring and operational tooling—with leadership roles across CapData, Attest and Prezi. His background spans data platform engineering, site reliability, and ML engineering, enabling him to bridge data science models and reliable deployment practices. At CapData he moved from software engineer to head of development, reflecting a knack for scaling teams as well as systems. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Colleagues would describe him as someone who genuinely "likes data" and turns that curiosity into measurable observability and operational improvements.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Github Skills (18)
monitoring10
python10
metadata10
data-ingestion10
wpgraphql9
java9
wordpress-graphql9
javas9
graphql9
docker8
kafka8
dockers8
cicd7
data-catalog6
auto-discovery6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
datahub-project/datahub
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
The Metadata Platform for your Data and AI Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 86 reviews, 25 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to back-end functionality, specifically related to data ingestion and monitoring. They implemented features to disable SSL verification for REST emitters, added a mode option to the Presto-on-Hive source, and incorporated metrics for GraphQL error tracking. Additionally, the user worked on DevOps-related tasks, enabling JMX and OTEL for frontend pods, and addressing Kafka configuration issues in the quickstart.
data-managementdata-discoverydata-stackmodern-data-stackdata-catalog
szalai1/rich4clojure
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
Practice Clojure using Interactive Programming in your editor
Contributions:27 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
interactive-programmingclojure
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