Sandor Szücs
Software Engineer
Summary
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RockstarSandor Szücs is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining cloud-native systems, particularly around Kubernetes, HTTP proxies, and deployment automation. He is an active open-source contributor—helping stabilize external-dns, implementing RouteGroup features, and enhancing the Skipper reverse proxy to handle SPDY upgrades—demonstrating a mix of backend engineering and DevOps expertise. His contributions show attention to reliability: fixing nil pointer dereferences, adding tests, refactoring for efficiency, and updating dependencies to remove vulnerabilities. Comfortable across infrastructure and code, he has practical experience automating Kubernetes-on-AWS deployments, dynamic hosted zones, and encryption handling. Lightly eccentric as a self-described “Teapot Engineer,” he brings both pragmatism and a sense of curiosity to complex distributed-systems problems.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (28)
kubernetes10
debug10
reverse-proxy10
scripting10
proxy10
cicd10
http-proxy10
script10
aws-cloudformation10
go10
aws10
dns10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
zalando/skipper
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition, including use cases like Kubernetes Ingress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 releases, 1521 reviews, 624 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sandor contributed to the development of an HTTP router and reverse proxy, specifically focusing on enabling the handling of SPDY upgrade requests. Their work involved implementing a `SpdyProxy` to handle upgraded connections directly, creating and modifying code to manage the proxy's behavior in response to the requests and establishing connections to the backend for upgraded protocols and managing traffic flow, including authentication and logging mechanisms. The user also focused on improving error handling and implementing code to handle requests that are non-compliant.
casesproxyingress-controllercontourreverse-proxy
zalando-incubator/kubernetes-on-aws
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
Deploying Kubernetes on AWS with CloudFormation and Ubuntu
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:172 reviews, 1556 commits, 1786 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sandor primarily contributed to infrastructure and deployment aspects of the Kubernetes-on-AWS repository. Their work involved modifications to shell scripts for cluster creation and management, specifically focusing on integrating dynamic hosted zones and KMS encryption. They also addressed issues related to hardcoded S3 bucket configurations and parameter naming. The user demonstrated expertise in updating and configuring core components like the Skipper proxy and contributed to the implementation of channel handling scripts for release management.
deployingdevopsdockercloudamazon-web-services
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