Tamas Kende
Principal QA Engineer at ActiveVideo
North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolTamas Kende is a Principal QA Engineer with 13 years of experience designing high-scale functional and non-functional test frameworks and shaping CI/CD delivery pipelines for complex distributed systems. He blends hands-on coding (Java, JavaScript, Python) with tooling and observability work—building Grafana plugins, SonarQube integrations and custom utilities—to give teams clear, data-driven insights into quality and performance. At ActiveVideo he moved beyond testing to close process gaps across the company, architecting deployment pipelines to Kubernetes and automating end-to-end validation. A pragmatic experimenter, he treats testing as learning and focuses on finding problems that materially impact business value. His background in applied linguistics and long-standing curiosity for languages like Prolog and Haskell inform a methodical, research-minded approach to test design and automation.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Madách Imre GimnáziumBA, IT specialist librarian and Hungarian language and literature, BA, IT specialist librarian and Hungarian language and literature at Eötvös Loránd UniversityMA, Applied Linguistics, MA, Applied Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
Hungarian, English
Github Skills (97)
testing10
eclipse10
monitoring10
rust10
database10
go10
unit-testing10
pytest10
sonarqube10
time-series10
datastore10
react10
collectd9
redis-client9
json-converter9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
SonarQubeCommunity/sonar-erlang
Nov 2012 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 148 commits, 14 PRs in 7 years 11 months
kalidasya/grafana-gitlab-pipeline-status-plugin
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
Grafana plugin to show GitlabCI pipeline status
Contributions:2 releases, 4 commits, 8 PRs in 7 months
gitlab-ci-pipelinegrafana-plugin
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