Sandor Magyari
Software Engineer at Banzai Cloud
Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolSandor Magyari is a software engineer with eight years of focused experience building secure, back-end systems for cloud and big-data platforms. He has worked at Hortonworks and Banzai Cloud after a long tenure at EPAM, bringing deep expertise in Hadoop ecosystem tooling and production-grade server-side development. His open-source contributions to prominent Apache projects like Ambari and Knox show a practical emphasis on security, Kerberos/LDAP integration, and safer handling of sensitive configuration data. Sandor pairs telecommunications engineering training from Politehnica Timișoara with hands-on experience improving authentication flows and configuration management in distributed systems. Colleagues know him for methodically removing brittle legacy code and hardening authentication/token infrastructures rather than adding flashy features. He thrives on turning complex security and configuration edge cases into robust, maintainable server-side solutions.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Telecommunications Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering at Universitatea „Politehnica” din Timișoara
Hungarian, English, Romanian
Github Skills (12)
javas10
configuration-management10
authentication10
user-authentication10
ambari10
kerberos10
java10
amba10
security10
ldap9
sql4
mysql4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/knox
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Mirror of Apache Knox
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:439 reviews, 197 commits, 549 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Sandor contributed to the Apache Knox project by addressing backend issues, primarily within the remote configuration service and the token generation infrastructure. The commits indicate a focus on enhancing Kerberos configuration, improving error handling, and introducing features such as the ability to set specific cookie attributes and add the ability to set an environment variable. This includes enhancements that are integral to the authentication flow.
javaapachebig-dataknox
apache/ambari
Dec 2017 - Feb 2019
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:138 commits, 170 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Sandor primarily focused on modifying the Apache Ambari server-side code. Their contributions included removing obsolete code, specifically related to setting Kerberos credentials, and handling passwords/sensitive data within Ambari configuration properties. The user also worked on implementing changes to use internal LDAP configuration values, and they addressed a typo in an LDAP configuration property. The changes indicate a focus on improving security and configuration management within the Ambari server.
provisioningpythonclustersjavascriptapache
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