Lajos Szőke
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
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
Experience
Availability
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
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.
Senior Software Engineer
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).
Senior Software Engineer
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.
Senior Software Engineer
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.
Experience
ConfigCat
https://configcat.com- 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
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Software Engineering
University of Debrecen - Debrecen, Hungary
Skills
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
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)
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)
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