Zoltán Nagy
Software Engineer at Axle Energy
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarZoltán Nagy is a software engineer with 17 years’ experience in distributed systems, infrastructure automation and production engineering, currently based in London. He has driven infrastructure strategy and reliability at companies like Prezi and Facebook, and now works at Axle Energy, balancing deep technical ownership with operational and managerial concerns. Zoltán is passionate about healthy teams and maintainable systems, and he has led initiatives around immutable infrastructure, cost reduction, and outage communication. He contributes to notable open-source projects—improving UX for ungit and automating releases and Docker image workflows for Zipkin—bringing practical DevOps automation to widely used tooling. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and CI/CD, he blends hands-on coding with long-term architectural thinking. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic leader who prioritizes resilience and developer experience alongside engineering excellence.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
hungarigan, English
Github Skills (36)
asynchronous10
git10
alpine-linux10
knockout10
docker10
javascript10
github-ci10
lib10
async10
bash10
travis-ci10
dockers10
cicd10
java10
javas10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
openzipkin-attic/docker-zipkin
Jul 2015 - Dec 2017
Docker images for OpenZipkin
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:39 commits, 27 PRs, 369 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Zoltán primarily focused on automating the release and deployment process for the OpenZipkin Docker images. Their contributions include creating a release script using Quay.io, integrating the release process with Travis CI, and implementing automated tagging and syncing of images to Docker Hub. They also made improvements to the Cassandra installation script and updated the base image to use Alpine Linux with Zulu JRE 8, significantly reducing the image size.
openzipkindockerdocker-images
openzipkin/zipkin
Jul 2015 - Jun 2019
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:138 commits, 104 PRs, 151 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Zoltán primarily focused on improving the build and release process for the Zipkin project. Their work included implementing release automation with Travis CI, including tag and version validation, and setting up javadoc publishing to gh-pages. They also introduced CircleCI configurations for building and testing, alongside improvements to the build scripts and test execution.
opentelemetrydistributedtracingopenzipkinobservability
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