Miklós András Danka
Verified Expert in Engineering
Product Management Developer
Miklos has numerous years of programming experience, starting from winning a silver medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics to his current profession. He's spent five years working as an engineer, a product manager, a business lead, and hiring manager with Palantir, a top Silicon Valley company. Miklos will do whatever it takes to create value, let it be any kind of engineering work, product design, architectural fix, or anything else.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), IntelliJ IDEA, Git, OS X
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on helped hundreds of hard-working users to catch terrorists and reduce crime.
Work Experience
Software Engineering Lead | Product Manager | Business Development Lead | Hiring Manager
Palantir Technologies
- Led a team of five and together we created a brand-new internal feedback product that was organically adopted by thousands of employees.
- Managed a team of five and together we prototyped and built a new visualization and data analysis tool which allowed quick, interactive analysis of time series data.
- Led a customer project with a government organization which involved managing a team of five engineers and analysts, liaising with the client, setting project priorities, holding the team accountable, and developing longer-term strategies.
- Led the global hiring of engineers: managing a team of about a hundred recruiters and interviewers, designing the hiring strategy, interviewing all final-stage candidates, and making the hiring decisions.
- Created a generic customizable commenting service with a reusable front-end component to allow for the quick commenting on any resource in a platform of dozens of applications.
Project Manager | Engineering Lead
Momentum Hungary
- Created an informational web app to guide Hungarian voters living abroad to vote in their provinces.
- Led weekly sprints to set priorities for the team.
- Managed Google Analytics to track the success of the product.
Software Engineering Intern
- Worked with the safe browsing team to develop novel ways of detecting websites that enticed users to inadvertently download and install malicious content on their devices.
- Detected fake and likely malicious buttons on web pages; used computer vision libraries and machine learning.
- Tested the technique on massive-scale data; used Google MapReduce, BigTable, and the Honeypot VM infrastructure.
Experience
Vote 2018
Skills
Languages
TypeScript 2, SQL, Sass, Less, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, HTML5, Groovy, Python, C++, Bash, ML Programming Language, Haskell
Frameworks
Redux, Dropwizard, YARN, React Native
Libraries/APIs
React, jQuery, Node.js
Paradigms
Agile, UX Design, E2E Testing, Functional Programming, MapReduce
Platforms
Docker, OS X, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Kubernetes
Storage
PostgreSQL, BigTable, Elasticsearch
Other
Product Management, Front-end, Product Ownership, Product Strategy, Architecture, API Design, Google MapReduce, Computer Vision, SaaS Design, Design
Tools
IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse IDE, NPM, CSS Lint, Git, Gradle
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
University of Cambridge - Cambridge, UK
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