Tamás Kökény Curriculum Vitae

Summary

Profile

I am an enthusiastic software engineer, who is keen on working on diverse challenges. My main goal is to further develop my skills and use them to help people in a great organization. As an entrepreneur, I have had the chance to focus on my soft skills, besides programming. In my opinion, technical skills are the most effective if are backed by a product mindset, communication, organizational, and leadership skills. I continuously and consciously invest in improving myself, to be able to have the most positive impact on people around the world.

Contacts

Experience

Bobcats Coding

Period
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Description
Digital Product Studio
Website
https://bobcatscoding.com/
Position
CTO, Co-founder
Experience
  • Software architecture design
  • Building the team
  • Software development

Datadog

Period
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Description
Observability Platfrom
Website
https://datadoghq.com/
Position
Senior Engineer at the Events-ui Team
Experience
  • Library development
  • Creating reusable React components for internal products
  • Refactoring the Query Editor to help adoption for new product lines

Cazoo

Period
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Description
Marketplace for used cars
Website
https://cazoo.co.uk/
Position
Principal Engineer at the Merchandising World
Experience
  • Leading 3 tech teams from the technical point of view
  • Pair programming with team members
  • Improving observabilty processes of the teams
  • Facilitating agreements on and definition target architectures
  • Facilitating collaboration between teams in the Merchandising World other Worlds
  • Designing serverless architecture
  • Coaching the implementation of Micro Frontends
  • Coaching and teaching team members to follow XP processes like TDD
  • Facilitating internal learning events and lecturing

Cloudera

Period
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Description
Big Data Platfrom
Website
https://cloudera.com/
Position
Staff Full-Stack Engineer at the Data Visualization Team
Experience
  • Refactoring legacy JavaScript codebase to React and TypeScript
  • Developing new features on the Backend using Python and Django
  • Handling data connections to big data databases like: Hive, Impala, Druid and Solr
  • Managing the integration with the form factors using Kubernetes, Helm and Go
  • Maintaining E2E tests written in Cypress
  • Mentoring Juniors
  • Leading releases and managing the DevOps workflows
  • Facilitating internal learning events and lecturing

Green Fox Academy

Period
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Description
Software Developer Bootcamp
Website
https://www.greenfoxacademy.com/
Position
Head of Education and Co-Founder
Experience
  • Managing the international mentor team (20 People)
  • Hiring mentors
  • Creating teaching materials and methodologies
  • Teaching and mentoring participants
  • Developing internal software for managing students and teaching materials using Node.js and Spring
  • Angular and React development for clients as an agency
  • Technical consulting for companies in React and Node.js
  • Business development
  • Taking part of designing the core curriculum for the governmental software developer curriculum for Hungarian vocational secondary schools
  • Designing and filing accreditation for university courses with the British-Hungarian university, International Business School

Chain Reaction

Period
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Description
Software agency specializing in React + Node.js
Position
Tech Lead and Co-Founder
Experience
  • React, Node.js and cloud infrastructure development for bootstrapping startups
  • Business Development
  • Mentoring the technical team
  • Managing clients

Lab.Coop

Period
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Description
Venture Builder
Website
http://www.lab.coop/
Position
CTO and Co-Founder
Experience
  • Managing the software development teams (10 People)
  • Hiring software developers
  • React and Node.js development for a global marketing automation software company among other clients

Brickflow

Period
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Description
Social Media Aggregator Startup
Position
CTO and Co-Founder
Experience
  • Managing the software development team (3 People)
  • Creating the cloud infrastructure in AWS
  • Node.js and AngularJS development
  • Setting up the data aggregation and analytics system using Grafana and InfluxDB
  • Hiring software developers

Prezi

Period
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Description
Online Presentation Software Startup
Website
https://prezi.com/
Position
Developer
Experience
  • Multiplatform software development in an experimental team to create cross compile codebase for all platforms using Haxe, ActionScript, JavaScript and C++

NWS

Period
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Description
Web Development Agency
Position
Web Developer
Experience
  • Front-end development for clients using jQuery and PHP

Education

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Period
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Faculty
Electrical Engineering

Accomplishments

DevTalksJr

Time
Type
Conference Talk
Location
Bucharest, Romania
Title
How To Train Your Junior

HTML5WebDevConf

Time
Type
Conference Talk
Location
San Francisco, USA
Title
JS and clean architecture

Momecode

Time
Type
Course
Job
Creating a HTML & CSS course for designers
Institute
MOME Code (University of Art and Design Budapest)

Volunteer Work

Skool

Period
Job
Teaching programming and mentoring for 10-16 year-old kids
Website
https://skool.org.hu/

Django Girls

Period
Job
Mentoring and organizing
Website
https://djangogirls.org/

NodeBP Meetup

Period
Job
Organising events like Nodebreakfast, Nodeschool and monthly Node meetups
Website
https://www.meetup.com/nodebp/

Skills