Roland Elek
Staff Software Engineer at Cloudera
Szeged, Hungary
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Top SchoolRoland Elek is a Staff Software Engineer based in Szeged, Hungary, with 15+ years of experience building scalable backend and embedded systems across enterprises like Cloudera and Bosch. He combines deep systems-level expertise—from ARM7 firmware and Linux kernel drivers to large-scale monitoring and observability architectures—with a practical focus on operational reliability and customer-facing incident resolution. At Cloudera he progressed from hands-on development to technical leadership, shaping the metrics system for Cloudera Observability and mentoring junior engineers. His background includes tooling and CI improvements in automotive projects, open-source summer-of-code contributions to projects like QEMU and GStreamer, and teaching programming and systems courses at the University of Szeged. Known for tackling both architectural trade-offs and low-level debugging, he brings a rare mix of embedded, server-side, and operational experience to complex distributed systems.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Engineering at University of Szeged
Hungarian, English, German, Russian, Japanese
Github Skills (18)
storage10
xml10
hadoop9
kubernetes9
java9
cxf9
big-data9
object-store9
data-analytics8
network-server8
ozone8
docker-image6
container4
testing4
linux1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
octachoron/gir2java
Jul 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:116 commits in 2 months
octachoron/gstreamer-1.x-java
May 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:64 commits in 1 month
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