Zoltan Balogh
Software Engineer - Message Hub at IBM
Greater Southampton Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolZoltan Balogh is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years’ experience, currently driving logging, metrics, alerting and deployment automation for IBM Message Hub, an Apache Kafka-based cloud service on Bluemix. Comfortable in the Java and Linux ecosystems, he blends deep systems engineering with practical DevOps—authoring many of his team’s Docker containers and shaping operational tooling. He has strong test automation and QA roots from early work on WebSphere and Node-RED, where he contributed tests, new nodes (including Instagram integration) and configuration fixes to a widely used open-source low-code project. Zoltan practices Agile daily and brings experience across cloud challenges and mobile networking, proving adept at turning observability needs into robust, production-ready solutions. Colleagues know him for enjoying technical breadth and for pairing careful engineering (in-memory logging buffers, disk-managed logging engines) with a curiosity for new technologies.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, First Class Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, First Class Honours at Newcastle University
English, Hungarian
Github Skills (11)
mochajs10
nodejs10
javascript10
instagram-api10
test-automation10
testing10
webservice9
flow-based-programming9
ui-testing9
uitest9
html8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
node-red/node-red-web-nodes
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
A collection of node-red nodes aimed at web services
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Zoltan contributed to the Node-RED web nodes repository by adding new functionality and improving existing features. They added Instagram nodes, enabling integration with the social media platform. Further enhancements included the addition of tests and metadata handling within the Instagram node. They also fixed various configuration issues in the Instagram node.
node-redjavascriptnodesweb-servicesnodejs
node-red/node-red
Jul 2014 - Nov 2014
Low-code programming for event-driven applications
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Zoltan primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying various test files. Their work included implementing unit tests for core functionalities like storage and UI components. They also focused on ensuring comprehensive test coverage by adding checks to confirm the existence of test files for source code files. Additionally, they developed tests for core functionalities, such as the switch and range nodes.
event-sourcingnode-redjavascriptlow-codecqrs
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