Balazs Bartfai
Product Management Advisor at One Identity
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolBalazs Bartfai is a seasoned product and technical leader with 26 years of experience designing, operating and troubleshooting enterprise software and identity solutions from Budapest. He founded syslog-ng and Axoflow, and remains a hands-on back-end contributor focused on robust logging, integrations and data transformation features that reduce crashes and improve timezone and rewrite handling. At One Identity he progressed from Staff Escalation Engineer to Product Owner and now advises on product management, bringing deep customer-facing support experience and a pragmatic bias for observability and reliability. His background spans large enterprise environments at IBM, Oracle, GE and Honeywell, where he combined systems administration, identity management and application engineering. Colleagues rely on him for reproducible debugging, clear documentation and bridging engineering with product decisions. He’s selective about his network and values substantive technical conversation over noise.
26 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Újpesti Kéttannyelvű Műszaki Szakközépiskola és Gimnázium
English, German
Github Skills (9)
c1710
logging10
logger10
c1110
sys10
back-end-development10
performance-optimization8
software-design8
openssl6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
syslog-ng/syslog-ng
May 2007 - Jan 2023
syslog-ng is an enhanced log daemon, supporting a wide range of input and output methods: syslog, unstructured text, queueing, SQL & NoSQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Integrations Engineer
Back-end Developer & Integrations EngineerContributions:830 reviews, 3522 commits, 855 PRs in 15 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Balazs primarily focused on implementing and modifying features within the syslog-ng software. Their contributions involved reordering functions for better logical structure within the code, renaming existing functions for clarity, and fixing issues related to the handling of memory and potential crash scenarios in the core logic, particularly in relation to the use of the "text-with-nuls" transport. They also worked on adding new rewrite operations to the configuration language, including support for "set-timezone()", "fix-timezone()", and features related to setting and unsetting matches, indicating a focus on improving the system's data processing and transformation capabilities.
nosqlqueuingsqlsyslogsyslog-ng
balabit/syslog-ng-3.5
Jan 2013 - Oct 2015
Moved!
Contributions:200 commits, 1 push in 2 years 9 months
syslog-ngnosqldaemonsqllinux
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