About

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Dávid Szakállas

Welcome! szakallas.net is my personal programming blog and technical notebook. Here, I write about software engineering, site reliability, cloud platforms, programming languages, Nix/NixOS, and side projects.

I am a Staff Site Reliability Engineer specializing in operating highly available systems, control planes, and data infrastructure on public clouds and Kubernetes.

For a detailed summary of my work history, education, and technical skills, see my CV.

Technical Interests

  • Site Reliability & Cloud Platform Engineering
  • Programming Languages (Go, Python, Scala, Clojure) & Functional Programming
  • Reproducible Systems & Declarative Environments with Nix / NixOS
  • Distributed Systems, Observability & Incident Response
  • Open Source & Self-Hosted Infrastructure