Summary
Szilárd Antal is a Senior Staff Engineer at Cloudera with over a decade of experience building scalable Java-based systems and a strong foundation in mathematics and computer science from Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem. He has progressed through engineering roles at Cloudera since 2019, moving from Senior Software Engineer on Ambari to Staff and now Senior Staff Engineer, and is an active Apache Ambari committer. Skilled in core Java technologies, Spring and Hibernate, he brings deep OS X and backend expertise to distributed systems and cluster management. Szilárd combines enterprise experience from a long tenure at Akly Software with open source stewardship at the Apache Software Foundation, reflecting both product-focused delivery and community-driven design. Known for bridging rigorous academic training with pragmatic engineering, he often surfaces subtle architecture improvements that reduce operational complexity in large-scale deployments.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
English, German