Attila Szalay

Olvastad.hu — AI-powered Hungarian news aggregator

Designed and built a commercial Hungarian-market news aggregator from scratch, with deep AI integration at its core. RSS ingestion pipeline scores article importance with an LLM across multiple providers with fallback, generates embeddings for same-story clustering and hot-topic detection. Single Go binary architecture with MariaDB, queue-driven background workers.

StackGo · MariaDB · React · Embeddings · Docker · Git · LLM · Gemini/Google AI dev · Claude

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management

In this role, I focus on modernizing and operating complex enterprise build and infrastructure systems. Led the containerization of a complex enterprise build system, enabling scalable, reproducible environments on Kubernetes/OpenShift and reducing infrastructure drift. Designed and implemented GitOps-driven infrastructure provisioning (Helm, ArgoCD), eliminating configuration drift and improving deployment consistency across environments. I collaborate closely with development teams to align platform capabilities with product lifecycle requirements. I continuously improve reliability and system stability through monitoring, automation, and proactive problem-solving. Built an MCP server exposing our build systems to LLM agents, powering an agent-mode workflow that automatically analyzes build results to find the root cause of build failures. Created a RAG pipeline over our internal documentation to give engineers and agents fast, grounded access to institutional knowledge.

StackMCP · Claude · Claude Code · RAG · Docker · Podman · Kubernetes · OCP · Tekton · Terraform · Helm · ArgoCD · Prometheus · Grafana · LAMP · Git · Python · Bash · Java · Maven · Eclipse · Ant · Ansible · Linux · Instana · IBM Cloud · IBM ELM/EWM · Scrum · SAFe

IBM Budapest Lab (former Ustream Inc.)

Architected and developed high-availability backend systems of payment, accounting, and subscription services supporting high-load traffic for global users. Designed and maintained RESTful APIs with clean architecture principles, emphasizing scalability and extensibility. Championed microservices adoption, decomposing monoliths to services with proper API contracts, logging, and fault tolerance. Served as key contributor for transition the organization toward containerization and orchestration, laying groundwork for future Kubernetes adoption.

StackPHP · Go · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · Helm · Prometheus · Grafana · MySQL · Chef · PHPUnit · Behat · CI/Jenkins · LAMP · SOA · PayPal · Zuora · OSB · Symfony · Silex · Memcache · Rabbit MQ · SOAP · REST · SVN · Git · Scrum · Kanban

Freelancer

Worked with several small media agencies delivering custom web solutions (from microsites to complex webshops with integrated depository records) and applications. My long term client was the gal6.com which is a complex round based strategy game.

StackPHP · MySQL · MSSQL · CSS · HTML · JavaScript · Symfony 1.4 · Symfony 2 · LAMP · E-commerce · Memcache · SVN · Git

arukereso.hu

arukereso.hu is the leading price comparison site in Hungary and some other Eastern European countries. arukereso.hu is a member of the Naspers Group. We worked in cross functional teams and with cross functional members. Developed and maintained backend systems (from site backend to daily scripts which processing millions of records daily) and frontend issues.

StackPHP · MySQL · CSS · HTML · JavaScript · PayPal · E-commerce · LAMP · Memcache · SVN · CVS

PolePosition

PolePosition (former First Class Group Ltd.) is a web media agency. I started here as a junior web developer. We made many different websites, webshops and intranet management applications for many different customers. Promoted to Lead Developer, managing a team of five engineers.

StackPHP · MySQL · CSS · HTML · JavaScript · E-commerce