Zsombor G
Senior Software Engineer at JHipster
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolZsombor G is a Senior Software Engineer based in Vienna with 17 years of experience building and leading backend systems across cloud, data security, and developer tooling domains. He currently contributes at Dynatrace and is an active Apache Ranger committer, bringing practical expertise in improving audit logging, exception handling, and code maintainability for a widely used Hadoop security project. A longtime JHipster core team member, he has deep experience designing robust query services, filters, and REST backends that simplify complex data access patterns. His open-source work spans languages and platforms—from Go-based Gitea improvements to Rust query parsing in ReadySet and even JVM internals in Avian—showing a rare polyglot backend focus. Previously he led engineering teams at Hortonworks/Cloudera and at fast-moving startups, combining hands-on refactoring with mentoring and delivery ownership. With an MSc in Mathematics, he pairs strong analytical rigor with practical engineering skills and a knack for quietly improving code quality across projects.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
NLGMSC Mathematics, MSC Mathematics at Eötvös Loránd UniversityBajza
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
ps3mediaserver/ps3mediaserver
Oct 2011 - Mar 2016
PS3 Media Server is a cross-platform DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server. Originally written to support the PlayStation 3, PS3 Media Server has been expanded to support a range of other media renderers, including smartphones, televisions, music players and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:106 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Zsombor primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the PS3 Media Server, making changes to the HTTP server, configuration settings, and database interactions. Their work focused on customizing network interface handling, removing static singletons, and refactoring existing code for better organization and maintainability. The contributions included improvements to error handling, resource closing, and the parsing of duration data within the media information.
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jhipster/generator-jhipster
Apr 2014 - Sep 2021
JHipster is a development platform to quickly generate, develop, & deploy modern web applications & microservice architectures.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 232 commits, 131 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Zsombor's contributions focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the JHipster generator. They implemented a new REST call to count entities based on specific criteria, including writing comprehensive tests to ensure its functionality. The changes also involved refactoring existing tests to cover a wider range of field types and filtering options, increasing overall code coverage. Additionally, the user modified the generated code to leverage range criteria for ID filtering, improving the system's search capabilities.
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