Gergely Kalman is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance systems, consultancies, and startups from Valencia, Spain. He leads unbuffered.io and previously co-founded and ran Buffered VPN, blending hands-on engineering, product strategy, and business development. His background spans low-latency media platforms built in C and Python, security and PCI-DSS work, and blockchain consulting under NDA, reflecting a mix of systems-level expertise and pragmatic security awareness. Known for a hacker mindset—“I love to break stuff”—he thrives on optimizing throughput and reliability, having engineered single-machine solutions that handled tens of gigabits with sub-100ms latency. Quietly influential, he helped shape hiring and vetting practices early at Toptal, demonstrating an ability to scale technical teams as well as infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Eötvös Loránd University
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