István Soós

Oct 2011 -

Google - software engineer

AdWords Frontend Infrastructure

• GWT / Dart infrastructure; client-side performance; browser-compatibilities;

Jan 2008 - Sep 2011

Agilord Kft. - consultant

Agilord Kft. is an independent consulting company I've founded in Sep 2010.
It is a branch of OKTECH-Info Kft. which I've co-founded in 2008.

Agile methodology coach for a Hungarian bank (2010-2011)

• Scrum project coaching for various team sizes (10-40).
• Tool-, method- and team-assessments and recommendations.
• Intranet search server with Solr.

deect.com - a multilingual dictionary and language learning portal (2010)

• Side-project with Wicket, jQuery and Lucene.

Trusted technology advisor for GE Money HQ/USA (2008-2009)

I've been part of the global architect team (from SmartX Ltd.) with the roles of:

• Technology architect (Java EE guidelines, tool evaluation, SOA governance)
• Frontend integrations (Liferay, JavaScript UI, JSF, field-level security on the UI)
• Service consolidation (ESB, XML Schema refactoring, IFX consolidation)
• Project technology lead (planning, delivery evaluation, code reviews)

Consulting and Learning services

• Java performance analysis with a sampling-profile I've developed (2010-2011)
• Cloud computing and HA cluster architecture consulting (2010)
• Liferay portal consulting for Hungarian telco (2009-2010)
• Spring training, Liferay training (instructor, course developer) (2009-2010)

Nov 2006 - Dec 2007

Morgan Stanley - technology advisor, developer

MS Java Core Infrastructure

• internal trainings, technology consulting, code reviews, appl. performance
• DB access toolkit, JMX, XML differencer (streaming)
• group member of organized university contest to raise the brand-awareness

Equity Derivatives (5 months)

• trader and reporting applications (C++, Java, Perl)
• SQL grammar to scan stored procedures, detecting column usage / data flows

May 2005 - Oct 2006

SUN Microsystems - Java consultant (part time)

• architecture consultant and developer for several projects
• benchmarked a large Hungarian social networking portal for bottlenecks
• university contact and Java technology advocate

1999- young research fellow
Feb 2001 - May 2005

MTA SZTAKI - associate developer

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

• natural language processing of Hungarian texts (Java)
• adaptive learning algorithms for routing and redirecting e-mails (Java)
• data mining and statistics for medical applications and databases (Delphi, C#)

Distributed Systems Department

• Sztaki Dictionary

2005 - 2006

PhD studies

Budapest University of Science and Economics (BME)
Department of Automation and Applied Informatics (AUT)

• research domains: data mining of graph databases; natural language processing
• student mentor and supervisor 10+ (2005-2011)
• course development and instructor: J2EE development (2005)

2004 - 2006

MSc, financial software engineering

Budapest University of Science and Economics (BME)
Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences (GTK)

• HA and integration of financial systems in Java and Solaris environment

2000 - 2005

MSc, computer science / IT engineering

Budapest University of Science and Economics (BME)
Department of Automation and Applied Informatics (AUT)

• Analysis of graph problems with distributed systems

Major courses

• Train the trainer (Friesen, Kaye and Associates, 2007)
• Architect and Designing J2EE Applications (Sun, 2005)

2010 -

Blogging

• Agilord Radar - link recommendations
• Hungarian Dart Forum (dartlang.hu)
• Drillio - mentoring/education blog (drillio.com)

2007

Java EE book

• co-author of "Software development on Java EE platform"
  (ISBN: 9789639131972)

2002 - 2004

Scientific Student Conferences (TDK)

• Visual model aided SW-development for display-agnostic systems (2004, 2^nd)
• Semantic grammar language analysis in decision support systems (2003, 3^rd)
• Component-based framework for web portals (with: Bence Kővári) (2002, 3^rd)

2000 - 2006

(co-)author of a few publications

• data mining, fuzzy signatures (1); graph data mining (3)
• natural language processing (3)
• E-government and AI (2)

Competitions

• IBM 48-hour Programming Contest, team 1^st (2005, Budapest)
• International 24-hour Programming Contest, BUTE, 7^th (2002); 9^th (2003)
• ACM International Programming Contest, (2000, Prague)
• International Olympiad of Informatics, bronze medal (2000, China)
• Youth Scientific and Innovation Competition, 3^rd prize (1999/2000)

2002 - 2004

Fellowship of the Republic, Hungary

Passions

• Photography: www.wandering-dragonfly.com
• Go (~5 kyu)