Ákos Ratku
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Experience
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Zocks
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-Founder, CTO
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Mar 2022 - Present
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Hearsay Systems
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United States
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Financial Services
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300 - 400 Employee
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Senior Director Of Engineering
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Feb 2021 - Mar 2022
- Grew the Budapest site to 40+ engineers and 7+ teams- Launched 2 greenfield products from idea to customer deployment- Transferred key products to Budapest with full vertical coverage- Responsible for the architectures of 4+ product lines
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Director Of Engineering
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Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
- Built and managed a team from 0 to 15 engineers in a year- Designed and implemented enterprise connectivity platform from ground up- Designed and built CI/CD, release process for every service in the release train- Managed competing priorities of a platform and a customer backlog java, kotlin, python, spring, aws, terragrunt, terraform, jenkins, docker, aws lambda
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Starschema
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Hungary
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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200 - 300 Employee
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Lead Architect
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Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
- Designed contribution pipeline for remote teams - Led a team of 6 engineers - Designed contribution pipeline for remote teams - Led a team of 6 engineers
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evosoft
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Germany
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Lead Software Engineer
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Nov 2016 - Feb 2018
- Led an 8 engineer scrum team - Designed and implemented an IFTTT like ETL pipeline based on cloudfoundry and spring cloud - Designed and implemented a release train deployment pipeline - Migrated cloudfoundry based services to AWS - Member of the Architect Board java, terraform, gitlab ci, spring, netflix oss, mysql, postgres sql, docker, aws - Led an 8 engineer scrum team - Designed and implemented an IFTTT like ETL pipeline based on cloudfoundry and spring cloud - Designed and implemented a release train deployment pipeline - Migrated cloudfoundry based services to AWS - Member of the Architect Board java, terraform, gitlab ci, spring, netflix oss, mysql, postgres sql, docker, aws
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Ustream
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Budapest
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Senior Software Engineer
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Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
- Introduced Spring Framework to the legacy stack and used it with the help of containerization to splice up the proprietary framework based monolith. - Packaged services with docker and migrated them to a kubernetes cluster - Deployed kafka and cassandra clusters to kubernetes - Created consul based configuration deployment - Created an ephemeral cluster deployment model to be able to replicate any environment for testing and developing purposes java, kotlin, spring, kubernetes, docker, netflix oss, rancher, terraform, consul, kafka, cassandra, aws Show less
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Shiwaforce
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Hungary
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Apr 2013 - Jan 2016
Working on karmaplatform.com, full stack from the ui layer to the backend services, with a leading role in designing and implementing its distributed architecture. - Restructured the monolith application to multiple services based on resource usage and scaling aspects - Migrated stack to netflix oss (Eureka, Ribbon, Zuul) - Created Zuul based API Gateway for platform load balancing and authentication - Designed and implemented deployment pipeline for the services java, spring, spring cloud, aws, gwt, mysql, mssql, netflix oss Show less
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Self Employed - PHP Developer
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Hungary
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Software Engineer
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Dec 2012 - Apr 2013
- Designed and implemented a video sharing platform as a part of a team - Created streaming and encoding pipeline - Created chat service - Operated and deployed the services on a LAMP stack php, linux, ffmpeg, mysql, heroku, aws - Designed and implemented a video sharing platform as a part of a team - Created streaming and encoding pipeline - Created chat service - Operated and deployed the services on a LAMP stack php, linux, ffmpeg, mysql, heroku, aws
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Docler Holding Budapest
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Hungary
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Information Technology & Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
- Member of the SWAT Team, my main task was fixing bugs which occured in the production environment and developing new features for the upcoming version of the site. php, linux, mssql, chef - Member of the SWAT Team, my main task was fixing bugs which occured in the production environment and developing new features for the upcoming version of the site. php, linux, mssql, chef
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Self Employed - PHP Developer
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Hungary
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Software Engineer
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Dec 2011 - Oct 2012
- Developing a photo sharing website with a group of freelancer developers - Running the services on an LAMP stack - Photo conversion pipeline - Comment engine php, mysql, apache, linux, symfony - Developing a photo sharing website with a group of freelancer developers - Running the services on an LAMP stack - Photo conversion pipeline - Comment engine php, mysql, apache, linux, symfony
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Education
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University of Óbuda
Mechanical Engineering