Summary
Zsolt Kacsandi is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Budapest with 11 years of experience building and operating high-traffic web platforms. He has led infrastructure migrations and redesigns for one of Hungary’s most visited sites, driving a move to AWS, automating 90% of infrastructure tasks, and cutting costs by 21%. His hands-on work spans database clustering, Redis/RabbitMQ design, load balancing, Prometheus monitoring, and performance tuning that improved throughput and page load significantly (including an 800% Solr throughput gain). At Cisco he continues to apply large-scale SRE practices while bringing a pragmatic operator-developer perspective from years as a tech lead and senior developer. He’s comfortable bridging dev and ops, mentoring teams, and turning legacy systems into resilient, measurable platforms. An engineer who pairs deep technical execution with measurable business impact, he often focuses on eliminating single points of failure and automating toil.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering at Miskolci Egyetem
Hungarian, English