Zoltan Farkas
Production Engineer at Meta
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZoltan Farkas is a seasoned production engineer and technology leader with over two decades of experience building resilient systems for finance and telecommunications, currently shaping AI development infrastructure and performance testing at Meta. He has led large engineering teams and platform efforts—from portfolio attribution and data science platforms at PIMCO to low-latency trade capture at Morgan Stanley—and brings deep systems, architecture and release management expertise. Comfortable across hardware, OSes and languages, he specializes in scaling terabyte‑scale event and metrics processing as well as making model development reliable and fast. An active contributor to Apache Avro, his work on schema resolution reflects a pragmatic focus on data serialization reliability that underpins large distributed systems. Based in Jersey City, he pairs rapid technical adaptability with strong interpersonal leadership to deliver production-grade solutions.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at Politehnica University Timisoara
English, Hungarian, Romanian, German
Github Skills (6)
javas10
avro10
schema10
idl10
java10
big-data9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/avro
Nov 2015 - Oct 2020
Apache Avro is a data serialization system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 9 PRs, 36 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Zoltan primarily focused on modifying Java code within the Apache Avro project. Their commits involved changes to the `SchemaResolver` class, indicating a focus on schema resolution and IDL compilation, which is central to Avro's functionality. These changes likely contribute to the processing and validation of Avro schemas, ensuring their correct usage. Their work directly impacts the data serialization and deserialization aspects of the project.
avrobigdatadotnetpythonrust
zolyfarkas/spf4j-jaxrs
Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
Collection of JAX-RS features and utilities
Contributions:839 commits, 342 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
avrojax-rs-featuresjax-rs-jerseyplutusavro-schemas
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