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Achievements & Responsibilities

Projects

University of Zürich

March 2025 -

Cloud Engineer

  • Led the greenfield setup of a secure, scalable Azure Landing Zone (ALZ), fully automating deployment using Terraform and OpenTofu, enabling rapid and compliant cloud adoption for 2+ research teams.

  • Architected and deployed a centralized cloud monitoring and observability platform utilizing Prometheus, Grafana, and Azure Monitor, significantly improving visibility and system reliability for critical incidents.

  • Spearheaded the creation of a robust, multi-tenant Machine Learning (ML) platform (Jupyterhub) on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), providing reproducible and automated ML workflows for dozens of researchers using IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu).

  • Continuously enhanced the CI/CD process via GitLab and GitHub Pipelines, optimizing pipeline execution speed and ensuring rapid, consistent delivery across multiple critical projects.

  • Continuously enhanced and optimized the Kubernetes platform, introducing new features, improving resilience, and optimizing resource usage for production workloads

Credit Suisse AG (Freelancer)

April 2022 - April 2024

DevOps Engineer (Kafka, OpenShift)

Credit Suisse AG

  • Architected and implemented high-throughput, fault-tolerant data movement strategies for critical financial data, leveraging Apache Kafka to integrate diverse source systems across the enterprise.

  • Drove containerization efforts for high-volume Apache Kafka SpringBoot applications, enabling streamlined deployment and management on Openshift (Kubernetes).

  • Performed detailed performance assessment and monitoring using Grafana and recommended critical performance enhancements for Kafka applications and Openshift clusters, improving system efficiency.

  • Standardized and enforced deployment best practices by designing and implementing the Gitflow workflow across multiple application teams.

  • Developed and optimized complex, multistage Jenkins pipelines (using Groovy) to manage automated build, test, and deployment of containerized applications using Helm and Docker onto Openshift.

BOSCH (Freelancer)

September 2021 – April 2022

IT Architect (Cloud)

BOSCH Gmbh – Autonomous Driving (Personalized Automated Connected Electrified, PACE)

  • Coordination of requirements, conceptual design, implementation, documentation of cloud / IT architectures regarding existing security and compliance concepts.

  • Design and implementation of an automated architecture & policy enrollment

  • Review of cloud service architecture and gap analysis / resolution with respect to overall architecture and existing security and compliance policies.

  • Support the continuous evolution of the overall cloud architecture, security and compliance with respect to

  1. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS releases and their implementation.

  2. Assist cloud users in the design of their services with respect to overall architecture / security policies

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Accomplished certifications during this period:

  • Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-303)

  • Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305)

ipt

September 2019 – August 2021

IT Architect

  • Implementing Kafka Platform Security Features (Confluent Metadata Service with Role Based Access Control)

  • Kafka Platform Enhancement with Ansible

  • Building Azure Cognitive Services for speech recognition with Python and MongoDB

  • Developing hybrid architecture with Azure DevOps, Helm and Openshift

  • Giving hands-on workshop about AWS Kubernetes Managed Service

  • Establishing DevOpsSec with Snyk

  • Configuration Management with Sweagle

  • Developing Kafka Stream Application with SpringBoot

  • Requirement Analysis

  • Application Design and Roadmap

  • Data Integration (Oracle, Oracle Data Integrator)


Accomplished certifications during this period:

  • Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)

  • Azure DevOps Solutions Expert (AZ-400)

Teradata AG

May 2015 – March 2019

Senior Solutions Architect

  • Design and development of ETL logics with Oracle Data Integrator and R

  • R development and R Studio setup and configuration based on client requirement

  • Real-time data integration service setup and configuration which made real-time data update possible instead of daily batch loading which took around 20 hours

  • Integration Teradata with R which created a unified automated architecture

  • Translating R script logic into Teradata SQL

  • Physically design of databases

  • Evaluation and recommendation of new technologies


Accomplished certifications during this period:

Other hand-on activities during this period:

  • Developed mobile application with Google Firebase (NoSql real-time cloud database) & Google Cloud Functions on Google cloud platform

  • Prototyped “Internet of Things” streaming solution on Microsoft Azure IoT Hub using RaspberryPi with MQTT protocol and collecting the incoming data in a NoSql database

  • Real-Time Object Detection on Google Cloud Platform with Tensorflow

  • Hands-on experience with Apache Spark, Apache Zeppelin, Docker

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Credit Suisse

October 2010 – May 2015

Lead Solution Engineer

  • As a Lead Solution Engineer supervised 13 employees in 2010

  • Implemented solutions that accelerated, simplified and standardized technical environments which improved the development time by more than 50%

  • Datawarehouse architectural design of system integration of multiple platforms

  • Acted as a lead within the architecture simplification program

  • Supported colleagues to develop their own ideas and drove collaboration organizing weekly know-how sharing

  • Gave daily trainings for new employees to speed up their integration into the team

  • Shared Know-How and collaborated with diverse technical experts on all levels of organization by giving 2 hours workshops about diverse technical topics (Big Data, Hadoop, MapReduce, Pig, Informatica etc) for a technical audience of around 20 people

  • Developed application, performed analysis and tuned performances using SQL, Pl/SQL, Informatica


Accomplished courses during this period:

  • Hadoop Developer (New York, USA)

  • Data Scientist (Coursera)

  • Computer Networks (Coursera)

  • Data Analysis with R (Coursera)

  • Machine Learning (Coursera)

  • MongoDB

UBS

April 2006 – October 2010

Solution Engineer

  • Developed ETL logics and security solution using Informatica and Oracle, DB2

  • Acted as a Datawarehouse database physical and logical designer with Erwin and PowerDesigner

  • Coordinated and expanded the existing data warehousing system

  • Analyzed and migrated Oracle Pl/Sql packages to DB2

  • Got familiarity with visualization software and techniques (including Tableau, Business Object, Microstrategy, Hyperion Essbase) by developing customer reports and ad-hoc analytics based on large data sets of customer data using SQL, Pl/SQL


Accomplished courses during this period:

  • Hyperion Essbase (Zürich, Switzerland)

TCS

February 2003 – April 2006

Solution Engineer

  • Designed ETL logics with Informatica and Oracle for clients like Cigna, Verizon, General Electric in USA and Hungary

  • Excellent customer service skills and positive attitude as demonstrated by receiving Employee of the Month in 2003 which motivated me towards new challenges

  • Managed international datawarehouse projects by allocating and prioritizing project task amongst team members

Educational Qualifications

1994 – 1999

Budapest University of Econimic Sciences

Master of Science in Business Administration  (including mathematical and statistical modeling)

​Deutschsprachiger Studiengang Certification of Budapest University of Economic Sciences and University of Passau

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