Zsolt Parragi
Software Engineer at Percona
Hungary
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Top SchoolZsolt Parragi is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building robust back-end systems and tooling, currently contributing to Percona while pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd University. He brings deep C++ and Java expertise, proven by contributions to high-profile projects like CMake—where he enhanced generator-expression handling and fixed complex build and LTO issues—and to PerconaFT, improving core storage reliability. His background spans embedded/location services, PHP/Symfony web platforms, and systems administration, reflecting a pragmatic full-stack mindset that values maintainability and cross-platform robustness. Based in the Greater Aveiro Area, he pairs academic rigor with practical, production-first engineering and a track record of fixing subtle compiler and tooling edge cases that others often overlook.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd University
English, German
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Github Skills (24)
debugging10
debug10
c-language10
build-system10
cmake10
error-handling10
cprogramming-language10
llvm9
twitter-bootstrap9
global-variables9
code-optimization9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
percona/PerconaFT
Nov 2017 - Sep 2019
PerconaFT is a high-performance, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Zsolt primarily focused on fixing compilation issues, addressing warnings, and improving the overall robustness of the `perconaft` codebase. The user made several changes to improve code maintainability, including adding fallthrough comments, and fixing compilation issues with the gcc compiler. They also implemented a new configuration option for recovery, and made changes to FT/ft-ops.cc and src/ydb.cc, which is the core of PerconaFT. These changes suggest a strong focus on core library functionality and improving its stability.
transactionalperformancedatabasekey-value-storekey-value
Kitware/CMake
Oct 2016 - Nov 2019
Mirror of CMake upstream repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Zsolt primarily contributed to improving the CMake build system's capabilities and fixing related issues. Their work included adding support for generator expressions within `COMPILE_FLAGS`, allowing for per-source compilation flag configurations. They also addressed issues related to symbol exporting in Visual Studio generators and improved the bindexplib utility. Furthermore, the user addressed multiple bugs related to resource compilation and LTO support.
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