Mate Molnar

Profile

An ambitious senior software engineer with more than 10 years of professional experience in huge, world-class systems.
Software development is about providing effective solutions to real-life challenges. My dedication is to work in a way that I cover the full problem area, including but not limited to planning, implementation, documentation, deployment, follow-up.
I am looking for remote opportunities where I can shine leveraging my soft and hard skills. I have the drive and ambition to take on lead position (technical lead, system architect).

Hard Skills

Soft Skills

2022 - 2023

Senior Full-Stack Developer

(Backoffice)

Customization of EUIPO community codebase to meet Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (HIPO) requirements as a contractor

• Setup a fully-fledged DevOps system from scratch - considering future development plans
• On-site support of system administrators
• Support implementation decisions considering EUIPO and HIPO system architecture
• Hands-on implementation of business requirements leveraging existing base software
• Implementation of system integrations between EUIPO codebase and existing HIPO applications
• Improve code quality of EUIPO community codebase

DevOps Engineer

(Common Tools Integration (CTI))

Setup build and deployment environment for an EUIPO community toolset

• Setup Docker based build system
• Dockerization of each component
• Training and support of HIPO system administrators

• Docker
• Gitlab
• Java EE
• SOAP API
• REST API
• Wildfly
• Mule
• Activiti
• Javascript
• Oracle DB
• Maven
• Waterfall
• System adminstration
• Git
• Bash

2020 - 2022

Senior Java Developer

(Real Time Index System)

Development and maintenance of the highly available, highly concurrent event-based Real Time Index System

• Ownership over Real Time Index distribution RESTful APIs
• Contribution to MSCI mobile application backend services (Azure App Services, Cosmos DB)
• Contribution to automation of internal clients' processes
• System design planning (flow diagram, sequence diagram, etc. using Microsoft Visio)
• Implementation of Azure Cloud based monitoring for Real Time Index distribution APIs (Log Analytics Workbook, Logic Apps)
• Implementation of stress-testing tool for Real Time APIs (for testing reliability, resource usage, API gateways)
• Proactive contribution enhancements of release procedures, Jira handling, team communication, etc.
• Collaboration with internal and external clients, product managers
• 24/7 on-call support

Senior Java Developer

(Index Builder)

Due to developer shortage I was assigned to Index Builder project for 2 months. I proved to be able to catch-up with development quickly and contribute to project even under heavy time pressure.

• Java 8/11
• Thymeleaf
• Guava
• REST APIs
• Spring Boot
• JUnit 5
• gRPC
• Azure Cloud
• Azure Devops
• Maven
• Oracle DB
• Multi-threading
• Microservices
• Git
• Bash
• Scrum

2017 - 2020

Medior/Senior Java Developer

(Equity Derivatives Lifecycle Management System)

Development of Regulatory Reporting (RR) related modules of Equity Derivatives Lifecycle Management System

• Maintenance and extension of legacy modules (Intraday/End-of-the-day reporting)
• Implementation of the „Golden Source” of Mifid2 RR of Equity Derivatives (EQD)
• Migration of DB2 stored procedures
• Taking ownership over the whole EQD RR domain
• 6 months of technical leadership of RR Team besides everyday work
  (stakeholder communication; understand and break down tasks to jiras; training juniors)

• Java
• Scala
• DB2
• Gradle
• Spring
• JUnit
• JBehave
• Log4J
• Git
• Jenkins
• Bitbucket
• Autosys jobs

2013 - 2016

Java/C++ Full-Stack Developer

(Download Server of Lottery Terminals)

Development of the Download Server of lottery terminals, and the associated GUI.

• Usage and configuration of the underlying application server (GlassFish/JBoss)
• Usage of MySQL (via SQL statements/JPA entities)
• Java Swing based GUI development aligned with the existing framework
• Preparing and modifying rpm packages (using Maven or existing scripts)
• Modification of server startup scripts, configuration of daemons

Most important subtasks were:

• Re-implement lottery ticket validation on server side (GUI, hash creation, DB persistence/querying using servlets)
• Unification and customization of logging system (Log4J, SLF4J, Logback)
• Implementation of smaller features (Socks proxy support, VNC support, etc.)
• SNMP support implementation (Perl script)
• Implementation and maintenance of a daemon which periodically checks the status of other daemons (C++, Bash)
• 24/7 on-call support

• Java
• C++
• Bash
• RedHat Linux
• JBoss
• Servlets
• MySQL
• SVN, CVS
• Git
• SNMP
• JPA
• PHP
• EJB
• JPQL
• Perl
• Maven

2011 - 2013

C++ Developer

(Mobile Media Gateway)

• Implementation of auto-tests (functional tests, unit tests) and smaller features
• Holding/facilitating meetings and presentations

• C++
• TTCN3
• Git
• Agile
• Java
• Bash
• Clearcase
• Scrum

2010-2011

C++ Developer

(Lionheart - King's Crusade)

• Minor developments and bugfixes.

C++ Developer

(King Arthur - The Roleplaying Wargame)

• Post-release maintenance.

• C++