Summary
Zsolt Török is an engineering manager based in Berlin with about 15 years of hands-on software experience and 18 years in the industry, combining deep backend and data engineering chops with people leadership. He has led cross-functional teams at Klang Games, Native Instruments and SoundCloud, scaling teams, hiring talent, and driving org-wide initiatives like career ladders, salary banding, and data ownership. Technically fluent in large-scale data pipelines and backend systems (Spark, Scala, Java) he replaced manual royalties workflows with production-grade services and built reporting pipelines processing hundreds of terabytes. A former music producer and teacher of sound synthesis, he brings a creative, musician’s perspective to engineering problems and has bridged product, research and analytics as an interim PM. He’s known for pragmatic process improvements—OKRs, retrospectives, internal education—and for turning domain complexity into reliable, auditable systems.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, M.Sc., Electrical Engineering at Budapesti Mûszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem
Electronic Music Production, Electronic Music Production at ImPro School Of Music Technology
English, German, Hungarian, French