Summary
Dániel Élő is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and automating resilient backend and infrastructure systems, currently at Wise (formerly TransferWise) in Budapest. He has strong expertise in Kubernetes, AWS spot-instance clusters, Prometheus/Alertmanager/PagerDuty monitoring, and Python microservices, gained through senior SRE roles at Wise and Prezi. Dániel has led migrations from on-prem to cloud, developed internal platform tools, and owned on-call reliability for critical services while mentoring teammates and interviewing candidates. He combines an academic computer science background (BSc and MSc from BME) with pragmatic automation-first engineering, often focusing on reducing toil through code. Notably, he has experience designing cost-effective, production-grade Kubernetes clusters using spot instances—an unconventional but impactful approach to cloud operations.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Engineer BSc., Computer Science, Computer Science Engineer BSc., Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
English, Hungarian