Technical Lead Engineer

Gábor Soós

Owning architecture and technical direction for high-traffic, regulated systems — driving scale, reliability, and cross-team alignment.

Experience

Feb 2026 – Present

Parloa (Contractor)

  • Partnered with senior engineering leadership to define architecture and technical direction for an AI voice agent platform built on OpenAI, RAG, telephony, and text-to-speech technologies, driving observability, security, and platform maturity improvements.
  • Reduced operational complexity and support burden through reliability and maintainability initiatives, enabling a small team to sustainably operate a business-critical revenue-generating system during a planned sunset phase.
Mar 2024 – Jan 2026

Byborg / Docler Holding (Staff Engineer)

  • Drove profitability and registration-rate KPIs on a high-traffic consumer video platform (~5M daily visitors) by redesigning SSR and caching, separating user-specific state from first render to enable aggressive edge caching and reduce infra cost.
  • Set rendering and personalization constraints with product and design, trading UX flexibility for cache efficiency and reshaping feature planning to align with business margins.
  • Made a stateless, edge-validated authentication redesign to remove regional bottlenecks, directly supporting registration → buyer conversion by reducing latency in authenticated flows, while executing a zero-disruption migration and preserving security and compliance.
Jul 2023 – Mar 2024

XUND (Staff Engineer)

  • Decoupled medical questions and translations into versioned, file-based assets across three products, unblocking independent releases; optimized the monorepo CI/CD with incremental builds and caching, cutting build times by ~80%.
  • Took over a delayed, unstable project and assumed technical leadership, stabilized delivery by increasing test coverage and introducing TDD across teams, realigned stakeholders on a viable MVP by cutting scope while preserving medical device viability, and shipped the first stable release to the first customer.
Jan 2016 – Jun 2023

SAP / Emarsys (Technical Lead)

Progressively operating at Staff scope across platform, architecture, and cross-team systems.

  • Led a team of five to extract account creation, lifecycle, and deletion from a legacy monolith into independent services, migrating data via ETL pipelines and propagating changes through event streams.
  • Owned the technical direction of a shared design system used by 10+ teams, evolving it toward a11y-compliant components while preserving backward compatibility and guiding teams through incremental migration.
  • Drove the architectural decomposition of monolithic personalization into a dedicated service processing ~50M messages daily, orchestrating data retrieval and template rendering via event-driven workflows, building on earlier high-volume delivery systems (~10M/day) while preserving scalability, fault tolerance, and delivery stability.

Skills & Technologies

  • - Monolith decomposition strategies
  • - Event-driven messaging
  • - Cross-team architecture and technical alignment
  • - Incremental cloud migrations
  • - Developer experience and platform engineering
  • - Cross-team technical mentorship
  • - AI-assisted development
TypeScript Node.js PHP Python GCP Azure Docker Kubernetes Terraform PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis Kafka React Vue Angular

Education & Languages

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Master of Electrical Engineering

Languages

EnglishFluent
HungarianNative