Botond Rakoczi

Botond Rakoczi has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. Botond is currently employed at Frontiers as a Software Engineering Team Lead. In this role, they lead and manages a Europe-based development team, as well as serves as a tech lead and scrum master for an offshore team. Their responsibilities include providing tech guidelines, driving architectural decisions, managing people, mentoring teammates, improving team characteristics, and developing core backend application pieces. Under their leadership, their team successfully launched a new product within a year, meeting all deadlines and achieving scalability with over 25k users.

Prior to their current role, Botond worked as a Senior Software Engineer at LanguageWire, where they honed their software development skills. Botond also gained extensive experience at Itron, Inc., where they initially joined as a Software Engineer and later became a Senior Software Engineer. At Itron, Inc., they contributed to building a distributed system for managing water utility systems, incorporating in-memory technologies and various tools such as Azure cloud, MS SQL, Cosmos DB, and Entity Framework Core. Botond also focused on designing .NET Core microservices on Kubernetes platform and evolving team practices for the software development life cycle.

Furthermore, Botond has worked as a Research Associate at the University of Westminster, where they developed a framework for the deployment and orchestration of cloud applications. Botond utilized programming languages such as C# and Bash to write the core of the application orchestrator. Botond also had experience as a DevOps Engineer at MTA SZTAKI, building and maintaining private clouds and developing SQL data layers on .NET while utilizing monitoring tools such as Kibana, Grafana, and Prometheus.

Their earliest work experience as a System Engineer at DELTA csoport showcases their early involvement in the industry. Overall, Botond Rakoczi's work experience demonstrates their expertise in software engineering, leadership, team management, and the development of scalable and innovative systems.

Botond Rakoczi completed a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Óbuda University in the years 2013 to 2017. In addition, they earned an Associate's degree in Routing and Switching from the Cisco Networking Academy from 2014 to 2016. Botond also holds various certifications, including Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) from Scrum Alliance in 2023, Google Project Management Certificate from Coursera in 2022, AZ-300 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies from Microsoft in 2020, and Certified SAFe® 4 Agile Software Engineer from Scaled Agile, Inc. in 2019. Botond also obtained certifications from Cisco, Oracle, and SAP.