Attila Szabo, Project Manager in Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania
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Attila Szabo

Verified Expert  in Project Management

Bio

Attila is an engineering leader with solid experience in both startup and enterprise environments. Before switching to management, he worked for seven years as a back-end engineer. As a delivery manager, he worked on projects in finance, eCommerce, health tech, and cloud infrastructure domains. Attila has a good understanding of Java, Python, Ruby, Scala, and React.

Project Highlights

Medicare Plan Comparison Tool
Built a suite of three products used in pharmacies for Medicare plan comparison, patient outreach, and CRM integration via OCR.
Payment Service for a Betting Platform
Migrated the payments solution of a global betting platform from an in-house solution to an industry-leader third-party integration.
Landing Page for an SaaS subscription Purchase
Managed a small team of engineers to implement a fully functional landing page for our SaaS solutions from scratch and added the possibility of paying online for a subscription without scheduling a sales demo.

Expertise

  • Delivery Management
  • Kanban
  • Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Scrum
  • Strategic Planning & Execution
  • Web Development

Work Experience

Engineering Manager

2021 - 2022
Toptal
  • Joined the team as an engineering manager and grew it from 10 to 15 members according to business needs.
  • Partnered with stakeholders to clarify yearly and quarterly goals and then coached the engineering team to deliver based on our commitments.
  • Improved the team and stakeholders' net promoter score and managed to promote three engineers to the next level in their careers.

Head of Engineering

2019 - 2021
Amplicare
  • Joined the team as an engineering manager and then grew into the head of engineering role by partnering with C-level executives to deliver Amplicare's product roadmap.
  • Set up a team structure of scrum-of-scrums and formalized roles and responsibilities within teams.
  • Introduced a DevOps culture and hired security specialists for our SOC2 and PHII compliance audits.
  • Secured a B2B contract with the biggest pharmacy chain in the US for which my team has implemented a secure, single-tenant environment.
  • Hired engineers globally and established proper remote-first onboarding processes.

Area Manager

2014 - 2019
Accesa
  • Joined the company as a Java consultant. During the company's hypergrowth, I've successfully worked as an integration consultant, scrum master, technical lead, delivery manager, and then got promoted to area manager.
  • Managed a team of 40+ developers working in multiple teams for the same customer: the largest electronics retailer in Europe.
  • Forecasted and executed annual planning based on customer needs.
  • Consulted and coached the customer during their cloud migration of all projects from on-premise hosting to Google Cloud.
  • Coached team leads and technical leads to becoming better leaders for their teams.

Project History

Medicare Plan Comparison Tool

Built a suite of three products used in pharmacies for Medicare plan comparison, patient outreach, and CRM integration via OCR.

I managed a team of 25+ developers, testers, DevOps, and architects. We have delivered solutions that helped thousands of Medicare patients find their Medicare plans.

We also scaled our solution successfully when the business grew from 5,000 to 13,000 pharmacies.

Payment Service for a Betting Platform

Migrated the payments solution of a global betting platform from an in-house solution to an industry-leader third-party integration.

I worked with a team of six engineers to migrate the old legacy code to a modern, fast, and secure payment page.

We have reduced the number of failed transactions by 40% and the execution time of payment by 30%.

Landing Page for an SaaS subscription Purchase

Managed a small team of engineers to implement a fully functional landing page for our SaaS solutions from scratch and added the possibility of paying online for a subscription without scheduling a sales demo.

I worked together with the marketing agency that designed the landing page to clarify requirements, handling both in-house and freelance engineers to estimate, plan, and deliver the project within a very tight deadline of two months.

We integrated our solution with HubSpot for CRM capabilities.

Education

2007 - 2011

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Technical University of Cluj Napoca - Cluj Napoca, Romania

Certifications

JANUARY 2022 - PRESENT

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

PMI

JANUARY 2016 - PRESENT

Certified Web Developer

Oracle

Skills

Tools

Jira, PostgreSQL, HubSpot

Paradigms

Kanban, Agile Project Management, Agile, Scrum, Management

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Other

Java, Project Management, Leadership, Delivery Management, Technical Project Management, Hiring, MySQL, Project Discovery, Product Discovery, Requirements & Specifications, IT Service Delivery, Scrum Master, Web Development, Strategic Planning & Execution, Financial Systems, eCommerce Platforms, Discovery Workshops, Discovery Management, Cloud, System Integration, Python, Ruby, Mobile, Distributed Systems, React, Security, Agile Coaching, Budgeting, Coaching, Payment APIs, Netlify, Django, Service Delivery Project Management

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