Lajos Szőke, Developer in Budapest, Hungary
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Lajos Szőke

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Software Developer

Location
Budapest, Hungary
Toptal Member Since
September 2, 2020

Lajos is a founder and CTO of ConfigCat, a feature flag as a service startup where he works as a full-stack developer. His main tech preferences are C# (.Net Core), Angular/Typescript, and MySQL. He also has experience with Python, Node.js, and Java. Lajos also enjoys working as a DevOps engineer (Terraform, Docker, Azure, VPS management, and Docker Swarm). His favorite jobs are projects that allow him to optimize and automate things.

Portfolio

ConfigCat
Docker Swarm, Docker, C#, Entity Framework Core, Python, MySQL, Azure...
LogMeIn
JavaScript, ASP.NET Web Forms, MSSQLCE, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, C#, .NET...
AvenData Gmbh.
ASP.NET MVC, Java, .NET, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), MySQL

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Slack, Sublime Text 3, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Visual Studio, Linux, Windows

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed is ConfigCat, a feature flag as a service. I'm one of the founders, and I really love working on the product.

Work Experience

Founder

2018 - PRESENT
ConfigCat
  • Contributed to the development of the back end of the database (MySQL) and the API (ASP. Net Core).
  • Worked on the ASP.NET Core MVC front-end development and migrated everything to Angular/TypeScript.
  • Dockerized the services, created the full Docker Swarm environment, and used Terraform to provision the infrastructure.
Technologies: Docker Swarm, Docker, C#, Entity Framework Core, Python, MySQL, Azure, Terraform, Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, TypeScript, Angular, .NET Core

Senior Software Engineer

2014 - 2018
LogMeIn
  • Worked on join.me, a market-leading online conference tool that has a really large user base.
  • Worked on the back end (C# .NET, MVC, and .Net Core) and served on part of the database team (MS SQL).
  • Created a system that processed the online conference tool's recordings (audio, video, and screen sharing).
Technologies: JavaScript, ASP.NET Web Forms, MSSQLCE, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, C#, .NET, .NET Core

Senior Software Engineer

2012 - 2014
AvenData Gmbh.
  • Developed a web application to show huge amounts of data.
  • Developed an application to migrate SAP databases to the custom database format for further querying.
  • Developed an accounting system for a German company in C# WPF.
Technologies: ASP.NET MVC, Java, .NET, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), MySQL

Senior Software Engineer

2008 - 2012
PannonSzoftver Kft.
  • Developed an ERP system mainly in Delphi. Took on a huge part of the production planning development.
  • Developed a synchronization application between FireBird databases in Java.
  • Developed an accounting system (Hungarian) in C# Winforms.
Technologies: Firebird, C#, .NET, Java, Delphi

ConfigCat

https://configcat.com
A feature flag as a service application. I am one of the founders, and I worked on almost everything on this project:
- Database (MySQL)
- Back end (ASP .Net Core Web API)
- Front end (Angular/TypeScript)
- JavaScript-based SDKs
- Python SDK
- .Net SDK
- Docker
- Docker Swarm
- Terraform
- Azure DevOps
- Tech writing (blogs, social media)
- SEO

Languages

C#, HTML, CSS, SCSS, TypeScript, JavaScript, Delphi, SQL, XML, Python, Java

Frameworks

.NET Core, Angular, Entity Framework Core, .NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET Core MVC, ASP.NET Web Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

Libraries/APIs

LINQ, Entity Framework, REST APIs, Slack API, Authorize.net, Zoho API

Tools

Visual Studio, Sublime Text 3, Slack, Git, GitHub, Visual Studio 2019, Terraform, Docker Swarm, NGINX, GitHub Pages, Figma

Paradigms

Azure DevOps, REST, RESTful Development

Platforms

Windows, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Azure, Visual Studio 2017, Linux, Docker, Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu

Storage

MySQL, JSON, Firebird, MSSQLCE

Other

APIs, Single-page Applications (SPA), Chargebee, IIS, Internet Information Services (IIS), Web Server (IIS)

2007 - 2010

Bachelor of Science Degree in Software Engineering

University of Debrecen - Debrecen, Hungary

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