Istvan Tobias
Lead Frontend Developer at Lotto New Zealand
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolIstvan Tobias is a Lead Frontend Developer based in Auckland with over a decade of professional experience and more than twenty years in IT, blending deep frontend expertise with practical backend Node.js skills. He specializes in React and Next.js, with a track record of improving user experience in large-scale projects—highlighted by UI contributions to the widely used Apache Ambari logsearch component. Istvan has progressed from hands-on engineering roles to leadership positions at companies like Lotto New Zealand and Serko, combining product-minded development with project management. He’s passionate about mentoring and team coaching, formalized through solution-focused team coaching training, and brings a people-first approach to technical leadership. Comfortable across the full stack, he’s known for pragmatic refactors and UX-driven improvements that make complex systems more usable. Outside code, his background in performance and even volunteer clowning hints at a creative communicator who values user empathy and a little humor in high-pressure environments.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Hungarian, English, French
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Github Skills (9)
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angular10
ui-design9
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css9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ambari
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:96 commits, 129 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Istvan primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the "ambari-logsearch-web" component within the Apache Ambari project. Their contributions include implementing new UI elements, such as action menus and pagination controls, and refactoring existing components like the time histogram to improve display and usability. The user made multiple commits to modify the layout and styling of the logs list, and related elements, suggesting a focus on improving the user experience.
ambariapache-hadoopmonitoringprovisioningpython
tobias-istvan/ambari
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019
Mirror of Apache Ambari
Contributions:203 pushes, 134 branches in 1 year
javaambariapache
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