Work experience
Senior Software Engineer/Architect at LogMeIn, Budapest (2014–)
Lead engineer of the cross-platform core of collaboration and customer engagement and support products.
Working with several experienced colleagues, I was involved in software design utilizing cross-platform back-end and front-end technologies aimed at making a first-class multi-platform conference and collaboration tool of the LogMeIn software-as-a-service product join.me. The main challenges included choosing technologies and writing future-proof portable code that integrates seamlessly with platform-specific application code (for both desktop and hand-held devices) developed by several Scrum teams. This covered a broad range of topics including asynchronous operations (futures) and networking, media services, distributed state management, platform-adaptable interfaces and a monitoring framework. Our work had to keep pace with rapid product evolution (revenue from the product doubled each year, coupled with a high demand for new features) while maintaining stability. My major projects include a brand-new HTML5 client evolving from a sizable C++ code base, with a fully functional prototype developed in 2-3 months (instead of previously anticipated 6 months); a full reorganization of an existing code base resulting from fast inorganic growth as well as inherited from earlier days of join.me; and semi-automatically generated glue interfaces making an effective use of C++ template technology.
After the merger of LogMeIn with Citrix's GetGo business, I was involved in the product transfer project of the customer engagement and support application GoToAssist from Karlsruhe to Budapest. Once the product had been transferred, I became the primary feature negotiator for platform services (screen share, input control, messaging) used by GoToAssist and its twin product Rescue. To meet surging demand for new features, I have been a lead contributor to the next-generation architecture for a common GoToAssist and Rescue product, including its web technician console. As part of my work, I have been keeping in touch with several Scrum teams in Hungary and colleagues in Germany and the US.
Technologies involved: C++11/14, Boost, C++/CLI, Python, HTML5/JavaScript, asm.js, emscripten, Windows/Mac
Developer experience
Proficient
Programming languages and paradigms I use in daily work and fields where I have over 10 years of experience.
- Software design, architectural and design patterns
- Multi-paradigm languages
- C++ (C++11/14 with Standard Template Library and Boost)
- Interpreted (script) languages
- JavaScript and web technologies
- PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (Joomla CMS system)
Teaching
At the end of my Master's and as a PhD student, I have assisted in teaching various courses on software design, database and web technologies, and introductory programming.