Tamás Szelei is a Build Engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in cross-platform C++ build systems and developer tooling, currently maintaining a CMake-based build for a >1M LOC project at Network Optix. He has driven dependency and toolchain standardization at Plex, moving teams to conan/Artifactory, automating packaging and CI across Linux, macOS, Windows and exotic platforms. A pragmatic modernizer, he has contributed to open-source C++ projects like rpclib—refactoring for string_view, MSVC support and client features—while also crafting Python devops tools and custom LLVM-based toolchains. Comfortable reversing legacy code and introducing best practices, he blends low-level systems expertise with developer-friendly automation and a collaborative, workshop-driven approach to team enablement. Unexpectedly, he pairs this deep technical focus with a lighthearted GitHub bio—"I'm only here for the food"—hinting at a personable, down-to-earth working style.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Engineering, BSc, Computer Engineering at Budapesti Mûszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem
Non-degree, Management and Strategy, Non-degree, Management and Strategy at BME College For Advanced Management Studies
rpclib is a modern C++ msgpack-RPC server and client library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 releases, 501 commits, 15 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tamás made multiple commits focused on enhancing the rpclib library, a modern C++ msgpack-RPC server and client library. Their work involved refactoring the library to utilize more modern C++ features, such as `string_view`, adding support for MSVC, and updating to the latest version of the cppformat library. Additionally, the user contributed to adding client functionality.
Contributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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