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István Szántai (szantaii)

GNU/Linux & free software enthusiast

About

I am a software engineer, with over ten years of experience. Built up while working with international teams big and small across borders.

I am living in Budapest, Hungary, where I spend my free time watching asian movies and reading literature.

Interests

I spend most of my spare time reading about, learning about and doing the following.

  • Tinkering with the Raspberry Pi SBC.
  • Shaping written text using LaTeX.
  • Reading about typography.
  • Creative coding.
  • Using inadequate tools for solving non-existing problems (just for fun).
  • Watching bad movies with friends.
  • Typewriters.

Work

Presently I work at One Identity, where we are building a high-performance, high-reliability log management appliance. Before that I worked with Siemens industrial systems, did some lecturing at BUTE and tested cloud storage at GoTo (formerly LogMeIn).

For more details feel free to reach out and I will be happy to provide a more in-depth overview.

Projects

A few ideas that I have gone ahead and built in my spare time.

  • slow-movie-frame-10.3 – A picture frame enclosing an e-paper device which plays movies in a very slow manner.
  • sidenote.hu – My previous, now defunct, personal blog. (A static archive still available by clicking the link.)
  • Mirror π (2) – A smart mirror built using a Raspberry Pi.
  • bash-weather – Weather report written in Bash.
  • bash-gorillas – A demake of the QBasic GORILLAS game completely written in Bash.