Tamas Polgar
Scala Developer at OVO
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTamas Polgar is a Scala developer with over 11 years of commercial experience and a strong background in Java, software architecture and Agile delivery across finance, media, utilities and sports betting. He has delivered resilient, event-driven and high-throughput systems—from intraday market risk platforms at Morgan Stanley to greenfield event-sourced bet processing at William Hill and a smart meter replatforming at OVO. Comfortable across the full project lifecycle, he blends research-and-development rigor with practical engineering to drive migrations, CRM and recommendation services at scale. Known for creative problem solving, he pairs solid communication and prioritisation skills with hands-on implementation of reactive architectures. Actively exploring agile startup development outside of work, he brings a continual-learning mindset that helps teams adopt new technologies and effective change. Based in England, he leverages a strong academic foundation (MSc in Computer Science) to inform pragmatic, production-focused design choices.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd University
Github Skills (14)
json9
generic-derivation8
scala8
integrate7
binding6
java5
akka5
kotlin4
akka-http4
jvm4
playframework4
pi4j3
remoting3
akka-streams3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tamaspolgar/jwt4s
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
tamaspolgar/tamaspolgar.github.io
Dec 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:139 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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