Zoltan Olah
CEO at Chromatic
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolZoltan Olah is a CEO and full‑stack product leader with 16 years of experience building developer-focused software and web UIs from Melbourne. As co-founder and CEO of Chromatic he blends hands-on engineering, product strategy and customer success—skills honed previously as a product manager at Apollo GraphQL and Director of Customer Success at Meteor. He has a deep technical pedigree across front-end and back-end stacks, contributing code and tests to notable open-source projects like Meteor while also shipping complex systems in Python, Erlang, Java and C++. Zoltan’s background includes founding a boutique studio, scaling PaaS support for Galaxy, and building cross‑platform tooling (browser plugins to distributed data pipelines), which gives him a rare combination of operator, maker and product instincts. Colleagues describe him as a practical engineer who thinks like a product manager and leads with an eye for developer experience.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Melbourne High SchoolThe University of Melbourne
Hungarian
Github Skills (11)
nodejs10
javascript10
meteor10
documentation10
reactive-programming9
mongodb-database8
clientside8
back-end-development8
mongodb8
front-end-development8
testing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
meteor/meteor
Jun 2013 - Dec 2016
Meteor, the JavaScript App Platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:93 commits, 62 PRs, 63 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zoltan primarily contributed to the Meteor JavaScript platform by adding and modifying documentation, specifically related to the `Meteor.disconnect()` and `forceApprovalPrompt` features for external service logins. They also implemented new features, including the initial implementation of `Meteor.disconnect()` and added basic tests, as well as ensuring proper online/offline handling in the `stream_client_common.js` file. Their contributions touched both client-side and server-side aspects, incorporating code changes across multiple files within the repository's structure.
app-platformmeteorjavascriptframeworktoolkit
percolatestudio/meteor-synced-cron
Sep 2014 - Aug 2017
A simple cron system for Meteor. It supports syncronizing jobs between multiple processes.
Contributions:19 commits, 8 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 years
meteorcronjobs
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