Attila Lendvai's CV
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Name Attila Lendvai
Mobile +36 (70) 316 7947
Email attila@lendvai.name
PGP key 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39
Location Budapest, Hungary
Work permits Hungarian citizenship
(As of Feb 7, 2023; latest version is available online with signature)
Attila Lendvai
Curriculum
Vitae
Masters in Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Budapest, 1996-2002
Formal Education
Languages
Fluent English
Native Hungarian
Intermediate German
Basic Russian
Bird's eye view of Lojban
Job History
Jul 2001 – Aug 2002 (about 1 year), Budapest
Project Engineer in Professional Services at Brokat AG.
I was mainly working in Java, JSP and C++ on the backends and frontends of financial systems. My final thesis at the university was: An Internet Open Trading Protocol implementation based on EJB and XML messaging.
Aug 2002 – May 2003 (about 1 year), mostly on the yacht of Charles Simonyi
Joined Charles' Intentsoft start-up as a software engineer, later on I became Chief Engineer of the programming team of 5 and Charles' primary contact.
Many aspects of programming are still done today in an informal, and therefore lossy and error-prone way. These non-formalized transformations are basically the phases when a programmer understands and then transforms an informal specification into a running program. In order to minimize these informal transformations, we worked on an IDE that helps to formalize the cooperation between domain experts and programmers. We continued Charles' previous Intentional Programming research.
Better known colleagues besides Charles were Gregor Kiczales and Mik Kersten.
May 2003 – April 2006 (about 3 years),Budapest
Software Engineer at NETvisor, a medium sized tech company specialized in networking and software development, mostly for big telco companies and government organizations.
April 2006 – today, Budapest
Co-founder of M.Wallen Software ltd.
Together with 3 friends and long-time colleagues we founded a company to give a legal framework to our decade-long cooperation. The company is specialized in developing and operating custom enterprise solutions for big organizations. Noteworthy customers are two Hungarian ministries: the Ministry of Municipalities, and the Ministry of Education.
I perceive myself as an open-minded, critical thinker, both in my private and professional life. It helps in win-win negotiations with people, and is probably also the basis of being quite flexible in switching between following lead and taking the initiative, as needed. Being open-minded is also key in my life-long search for better and better ways of programming computers, as opposed to following the ever-changing hypes of the industry. I found joy in solving problems and puzzles ever since I was a child, and more recently in analyzing and designing complex systems.
Some of my non-professional interests are: economics (Austrian school), monetary systems, cryptos; psychology; communication and linguistics; rational ethics; total human optimization; nature, especially hiking; table tennis; flying helicopters (models and simulation).
Strengths and Interests
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