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Jakab Benkő-Balázsi

Jakab Benkő-Balázsi

Java Software Engineer
Budapest,BU

Summary

Being a backend developer with almost 4 years of hands-on experience, have been working on some different kind of project domains like sales, healthcare and banking. During the years have had the opportunity to learn and practice the full lifecycle of software development and was getting acquainted with lot of new technologies. Having had also a chance to experience being a lead of a backend team and mentoring junior colleagues. Since all of the clients have been from different countries so far, have gained strong English communication skills. Consider myself as a positive person who likes the every day challenges. Confess that the mental health is the key, one of the most important secrets for achieving good results and a better future.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Java Developer

OTP Bank Hungary
Budapest, Budapest
08.2024 - Current
  • Maintaining Java Spring Boot applications and ensuring necessary test coverage
  • Reviewed code of different teams and debugged errors to improve performance.
  • Mentoring a Junior Developer team with 6 members
  • Managing and tracking Oracle Database operations
  • Transforming "distributed monolith" applications into real Microservice applications
  • Streamlined development processes by employing Agile methodologies and participating in Scrum meetings.
  • Supported user needs, developing custom functionalities based on feedback and analytics.

Java Software Engineer

EPAM Systems Kft.
Szeged, Csongrad megye
02.2021 - 08.2024
  • Making the technical design of new features
  • Implementing new features on backend side
  • Creating new RESTful web service APIs
  • Taking part in communication with the Client regarding the results of new plans, investigations
  • Reviewing the code of the teammates and providing suggestions, giving feedback
  • Writing unit and integration tests for existing code and newly written code
  • Cooperating with frontend developers in order to achieve the best feature results
  • Actively participating in the team following the SCRUM principles
  • Being the single backend developer for some months taking all the responsibilities and mentoring junior colleague later
  • Developed high-quality APIs for seamless integration with third-party applications, enhancing overall functionality.

Java Student Developer

CAS Software Kft.
Szeged, Csongrad megye
11.2018 - 2 2020
  • Completed the internship here during the undergraduate studies
  • Getting to know agile software development methodology
  • Getting acquainted with software tools the team was using - IntelliJ IDEA, Tomcat, Maven, Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, Jira
  • Implementing development tasks in Java and Spring framework

Education

Computer Science MSc - Software Development

University of Szeged
Szeged
09.2020 - 01.2023

Computer Science BSc -

University of Szeged
Szeged
09.2016 - 06.2020

Skills

Java

Digitalskills

Java, Python, Ruby, HTML, XML, Git, CI, CD, GitHub, Jenkins, Spring (Spring Boot, Spring Security), Spring Data, JPA, Dependency Injection, Microservices, Spring Cloud (Eureka), REST, Postman, Tomcat, CSS, Amazon Web Services, WSL 2, Maven, IntelliJ-IDEA, Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence, ...), SQL, Unit Testing, TDD, JUnit (Mockito), OAuth 2.0, Ping Authentication, Clean Code, SOLID principles, OOP (Java and Python), Agile-Scrum, Docker, Ansible playbooks, Grafana, Prometheus, Liquibase, Helm

Locations

Budapest, Hungary

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 03/07/97
  • Nationality: Hungarian Romanian

Hobbies

Piano, Football, Swimming, Running, Cycling, Hiking, Reading

Timeline

Java Developer

OTP Bank Hungary
08.2024 - Current

Java Software Engineer

EPAM Systems Kft.
02.2021 - 08.2024

Computer Science MSc - Software Development

University of Szeged
09.2020 - 01.2023

Java Student Developer

CAS Software Kft.
11.2018 - 2 2020

Computer Science BSc -

University of Szeged
09.2016 - 06.2020
Jakab Benkő-BalázsiJava Software Engineer