Summary
Szilard Raven is a hands-on Senior Software Engineer and engineering leader with 25 years of experience specialising in backend, full-stack and platform engineering across highly regulated industries such as finance and gambling. He has led teams of 5–16 engineers to deliver auditable, autoscaled cloud infrastructures, infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines that replaced brittle legacy systems and improved reliability and delivery speed. Comfortable both as a manager and individual contributor, he codes in Ruby on Rails, Spring Boot and React, and has repeatedly driven DevOps adoption using Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform and AWS. Szilard is a practical mentor who has grown graduates into technical leads and runs regular code reviews and architecture sessions to de-risk projects early. He also brings a curious systems background—from reverse engineering firmware to building embedded and multimedia tooling—and volunteers as a technical educator for Tech for Good initiatives. Based in Edinburgh, he currently contributes platform and engineering expertise at B4B Payments after shaping AZA Finance’s technical direction through a company merger and complex integration projects.
25 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Software Engineering at Budapesti Mûszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem / Technical University of Budapest
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Excellent, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Excellent at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
German, French, English, Hungarian, Swedish, scottish gaelic