aorcsik.com

I was appointed manager of the team I was leading. I embrace this new turn of my professional career, and while I'm still trying to stay close to development I also set myself a goal to become a great people manager.

I'm leading a small cross-functional development team. Our focus is developing and supporting PaaS based web solutions for our clients in HR.

My job is to create and manage HR websites and business processes, used by 400 thousand IBMers around the world.

I transferred internally to the Payments team, where we worked on integrating third party payment processors to our actual payment flow, managed subscriptions and renewals and sales A/B testing in a Python based backend and backbone frontend architecture.

As an infrastructure engineer I was developing backend solutions using Python and Scala and managing Amazon IaaS Cloud architecture. Our goal was to transition Prezi backend from monolithic hosted application to a microservice architecture in the cloud. The largest project I worked on here was separating the presentation backend/database and moving it to Amazon EC2/RDS instances. I was also part of the authentication service separation and several smaller projects.

In 2008 I was assigned to the köpönyeg project, which became one of the largest weather portals in Hungary since then. Developing this site required such skills as creating web crawlers and various visualizations, and continously maintaining the code to handle the increasing traffic. The extensive use of caching and optimized database usage took key roles in the achievement of reaching 400k+ unique visitors in early 2012.

For one year I was the lead developer of Utcakereső.hu a PHP powered city map web application.

I was hired as an intern and stayed as a full time sitebuilder working on the redesign of ingatlan.com real estate portal using client side technologies, JavaScript, CSS and HTML. Later I was involved in some backend development with PHP.

ELTE was a great fit for me, I progressed well and completed my final exams with excellent grades in July 2016.

My final project was an algorithmic sequence modeler, that could visualize simple programming patterns in a grpahical way, which is used as a educational tool. The modeler can compile and run the programs while showing the actually evaluated section.

During this time I learned the basics of programming, and wrote my first real applications in C and Java. I acquired some PHP skills for a community project, which I applied for summer work. I quit this institute, when real world project proved to be more interesting and rewarding and I also a realized that there is nothing for me in hardware engineering.

The second redesign, which started with a slidable week view. Later I added a full year view and a main page where the actual and future premieres are displayed. Underlying navigation was also redone and trasition animations were introduced.

I redesigned the application, the timeline was removed and instead a calendar stripe was introduced in the header. Also the movie details moved to their own full pages from the modal windows of version 1.0.

Version 2.1 lived through many infrastructure changes. In the end of 2015 the page was moved from shared hosting to a DigitalOcean droplet. After HTTPS was introduced the application was moved again to Heroku in September 2016. Data is stored in AWS, and delivered through CloudFlare.

It started with an idea to write a simple automated web crawler, that finds Hungarian movie premiere dates and generates a calendar link. Once the robot was working, it was just a step further to get some poster images, plot summary and genres.

I wrote my first blog post around 2003. Since then I've had many blogs, I kept searching for the perfect medium to share my thoughts. Building the blog was always more interesting, than writing posts.

This one is my latest attempt. It's based on Ghost, a lightweight open-source blog engine written in NodeJS. Check out my writings...