Richárd Kovács
Chief Technology Officer at Harikube
Kecskemét, Hungary
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Top SchoolRichárd Kovács is a seasoned CTO and Kubernetes engineer with 12+ years building cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems, and CI/CD tooling. He has held senior roles at Akamai, Ondat, IBM and Hortonworks and now leads technology at Harikube, blending hands-on engineering with strategic leadership. An active open-source contributor, he has made notable backend and DevOps contributions to projects like Woodpecker CI and upstream Kubernetes, improving build flows, local-cluster tooling, and developer experience. His technical focus spans eBPF, virtualization, container orchestration and Linux systems—skills rooted in a long track record as a systems architect and Java/Linux developer. Based in Kecskemét, Hungary, he prefers at least partly open-source projects and brings a pragmatic emphasis on code quality and test coverage. Colleagues rely on him for practical refactors that reduce complexity and make distributed systems easier to operate.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Gábor Dénes Collage
English, Hungarian
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Github Skills (32)
kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
bash10
dockers10
java10
cicd10
javas10
automation10
script10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
automations10
shell10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
hortonworks/cloudbreak
Aug 2015 - Apr 2019
CDP Public Cloud is an integrated analytics and data management platform deployed on cloud services. It offers broad data analytics and artificial intelligence functionality along with secure user access and data governance features.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:858 commits, 839 PRs, 1152 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Richárd primarily worked on fixing the order of checks in the equals() method of several Java classes. Additionally, they removed redundant "throws" cause declarations and fixed security configurations for the users endpoint by modifying security settings and the CbUser domain object. Furthermore, the user contributed to fixing potential REST errors in the uluwatu module by updating the web/server.js file.
data-management-platformcdp-public-cloudsecurecloud-servicesdata-management
woodpecker-ci/woodpecker
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Woodpecker is a simple, yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 24 days
Contributions summary:Richárd contributed significantly to the backend functionality and build processes within the Woodpecker CI/CD engine. They refactored code by creating separate files for build and proc status updates, which improved code organization. Furthermore, they were involved in modifying the server logic to handle build status updates and killed process operations, indicating a focus on CI/CD and server-side operations. The user also added tests to ensure the integrity of their code changes.
devopsdockerwoodpeckercidrone-cidrone
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