Grafana Labs · Hungary
Staff Software Engineer
- Member of the k6 core team
- Maintain and evolve the k6 extension ecosystem and tooling
Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS
Iván Szkiba
Staff Software Engineer
Budapest Metropolitan Area
Staff Software Engineer on the Grafana k6 core team, focused on k6 extensions, the extension ecosystem and tooling. Over 25 years of building and architecting backend systems in Go, Java and JavaScript.
Experience
NNG LLC · Budapest, Hungary
System Architect
- System architect of navigation services
- Supporting and coaching software architects
- Architecting authentication, authorization and licensing related development
- Leading by example in software development, automated testing and documentation
- Evaluating and selecting technologies
Go, JavaScript, Java, HTML, CSS
Head of Cloud Competence Center (interim, concurrent role)
- Led 4 Engineering Managers (4 developer teams, 2 operation teams)
- Supporting and coaching Engineering Managers, with emphasis on Software Engineering
- Supported the recruitment of a successor
Lead Software Architect
- Architect of navigation related Enterprise Java development projects
- Led the architecture team (3 Java architects)
- Technical leader of 18 Java developers and 3 test automation developers
- Evaluated and selected new technologies, made technology related decisions
- Introduced Continuous Delivery and managed code quality
J2EE, JavaScript, REST, Maven, Struts, Linux, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, Sonar, ANTLR
Head of Platform Development
- Formed the server-side development teams
- Led the development team (15 Java programmers) and supervised the system administrator team (3 administrators)
- Designed the system architecture, evaluated and selected technologies
- Recruited new Java developers
J2EE, JavaScript, REST, Maven, SVN, Ant, Struts, Linux, PostgreSQL, Apache httpd, Jenkins
Bonus Online Ltd · Budapest, Hungary
Head of Development
- Architect and technical lead of Bonus.com, a popular kids' website in the US
- Led the development team (6-10 Java developers) and the system administrator team (2 Unix administrators)
- Designed the system architecture (web, geographic DNS based load balancer, database)
Java Servlets, Tomcat, Apache httpd, MySQL, Struts, JSP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Lead Software Developer
- Developed key software components of Bonus.com
- Operated production and staging servers (Solaris, Digital Unix, Linux), managed network and server security, firewalls and the company email system
C/C++, Java Applets, PHP, Python, Unix shell scripts, Linux, FreeBSD
Software Developer and Unix System Administrator
- Developed software components of Bonus.com
- Designed and administered the company network, internet services, firewalls and production web servers
C/C++, HTML, CSS, Digital Unix, Linux, Cisco routers, HTTP, SMTP, DNS
University of Debrecen (UD) · Debrecen, Hungary
Assistant lecturer
- Taught programming languages (C/C++ and x86 assembly), object oriented programming and computer networks for programmers
Projects
- ini4j - Java API for handling Windows ini file format
Since 2005. My first open source project, started back when SourceForge was the only place to host open source software. I also used it as the homework of a Java training I led for former colleagues at Bonus Online and, as a good teacher should, I did the homework myself.
- Production Information System for Kaba Sugar Factory
1994-1998, during my last two years in Debrecen and first two years at Bonus. Probably one of the first intranet applications, but at that time the term intranet was not introduced yet.
Skills
Education
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Programming
Master of Science (MSc), Mathematics and Physics Teacher Education
Languages
- English · fluent
- Hungarian · native speaker
Interests
- Blues music
- Playing the harmonica
- Hiking