Zoltan Herpai
Real-time Market Data Engineer, Vice President
Budapest, Central Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolZoltan Herpai is a seasoned Real-time Market Data Engineer and VP with 13+ years in low-latency trading systems and over 20 years of UNIX/Linux experience, currently driving ultra-low-latency market data and datacenter migrations at Morgan Stanley. He pairs deep OS and kernel knowledge—including Solarflare optimizations and Solaris/Linux internals—with hands-on embedded Linux work as a long-time OpenWrt maintainer, contributing device trees and drivers for RISC-V and Allwinner platforms. Comfortable in both tiny startups and 50k+-person firms, he excels at leading cross-functional teams to deliver sub-millisecond production reliability and evaluating sub-microsecond third-party platforms. His background spans virtualization (Xen), high-performance Linux clusters, DOCSIS telco integrations, and provisioning systems, while his open-source contributions to flagship OpenWrt repositories underline practical expertise in IoT and embedded boot/driver stacks. An avid photographer, he brings a meticulous, systems-level eye to both engineering and operational problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ady Endre
English, French, Hungarian
Github Skills (38)
bootloader10
bsp10
net10
risc-v10
c1110
linux-kernel10
ethernet-ip10
makefile10
networking10
c1710
ethernet10
kernel10
gpio10
system10
openwrt10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openwrt/openwrt
Jun 2016 - Apr 2026
This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 263 PRs, 127 pushes in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Zoltan contributed tools and drivers for the i.MX23/28 platform, specifically focusing on audio, USB, and SD/MMC support. Their contributions included adding code for the built-in audio codec, implementing a low-power, real-time clock (RTC) driver, and integrating the MTD (Memory Technology Device) with the NAND flash memory. The user was responsible for enabling features like watchdog timers and hardware crypto.
openwrt
immortalwrt/immortalwrt
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
An opensource OpenWrt variant for mainland China users.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Zoltan's commits primarily involve modifications to the bootloader and device tree files for Allwinner SoCs, including adding support for various boards. The user adds and refines device definitions and patches to incorporate hardware-specific configurations, particularly for Wi-Fi modules. The contributions focus on enabling and configuring low-level hardware components like ethernet, and the PMIC, as well as boot process improvements.
openwrt
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