zsolt szalay certified magento lead developer, data analysis, elasticsearch

4x Magento Certified


Ecommerce - Architect - Team Lead/Management - Business requirements

B2C/B2B, Design/Development, Integration, PCI-DSS, DevOps, QA... Contact me

Certificates


Adobe Certified Professional - Adobe Commerce Developer
Magento 2 certified developer
Magento 2 certified developer
Magento 2 certified developer
Magento 2 certified developer

Wide skill set, Experienced, Out of the box thinking
8 years UK, 5 years US Magento B2C/B2B projects
Microservices for e-commerce, performace and data security experience
Blockchain and NFT enthusiastic

Data can talk and can talk in real time. Love to design and develop data driven systems in ecommerce environment.

Background


Technical background

  • 3 years MAGENTO 2 development (Architect, Back-End, CLOUD, DevOps)
  • 10 years MAGENTO development (CE, EE, Varnish, Elasticsearch, DevOps)
  • 3 years Docker based development
  • 2 year Data Science, Python, Pandas, FLASK, Machine Learning
  • 3 year Microservices for real performance and data digging
  • Strong SEO experience for ecommerce and blog on technical level and content level
  • Docker, Docker based development (on local too)
  • Strong problem solving, troubleshooting
  • 1 year NodeJS Rest API building
  • SAML IdP and SP building for SSO/SLO
  • 15+ years Front-End development (html5, Less, AJAX, jQuery, AngularJS)
  • Responsive Web design and Bootstrap
  • 1 year LARAVEL Framework (Authentication, Custom Admin)
  • Strong Database knowladge (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB)
  • Type 1 virtualization - VmWare, XEN Server
  • Type 2 virtualization - Vagrant, LAMP, LEMP, Varnish, Redis, Solr… full stack
  • ELASTICSEARCH, Data Analysis and Visualization
  • Versioning: GIT
  • Custom monitoring via fast data queue
  • Troubleshooting: XDebug, Profiler for performance issues
  • Workflow: JIRA-Agile, Rally, Plan.io, Jenkins

Other important knowledges

  • CentOS, Red-Hat EE linux, Ubuntu
  • Nginx, Apache web servers (GeoIP, Device detection….)
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle database servers
  • Redis Key-Value server
    • Central storage for cache of Magento
    • Store full page cache of Magento (I prefer Varnish)
    • Session storage for Magento
  • Varnish cache server, load balancer, GeoIp, Device detecton...
  • Elasticsearch not only for search
  • Lucene-Solr Search Engine Server
  • SAML, SOAP, REST-API...
  • Strong troubleshooting experience
  • Stong export/import experience with big data

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  • Adobe Certified Professional - Adobe Commerce Developer
  • MAGENTO 2 Associate Developer
  • MAGENTO Developer PLUS
  • MAGENTO Developer
  • MAGENTO Front End Developer
  • Introduction Data Science in Pyton
  • HUBSPOT Inbound Marketing
  • Information Security Awareness PCI-DSS
  • XenServer 6.0 Administration
  • 6x Oracle study certification
  • BigCommerce Stencil

My special areas

  • Responsibility for tech. strategy decisions
  • Quick understanding of problems
  • Architect
  • Magento back-end and performance
  • Custom module development
  • Varnish as FPC
  • ELASTICSEARCH – Magento sessions
  • Data analysis and visualization
  • Lucene-Solr search – Magento
  • Redis key-value server
  • Nginx - PHP-FPM
  • Memcached front of MySQL
  • Big Data
  • Data messiging/queue

Recommendations


Bavarian Autosport /BMW/

March, 2019 - CTO

LinkedIn

I had the pleasure to work with Zsolt for the past three years and directly as his direct manager for the past year. His extensive knowledge of Magento EE was what I was looking to add to our staff when he became available. He demonstrated huge capability to add many new ideas and out of the box problem solving to our robust Magento site by adding Kibana tools including ElasticSearch creating shopping experiences only reserved for the largest companies. He is able to understand and develop solutions in a smart and thoughtful way to improve performance, SEO and UX simultaneously. We were working on merging headless web pages with Magento EE at the end of our time together. Zsolt has a complete understanding of the architecture needed to provide fast and amazing pages to ecommerce websites from setting up the environment to payment processing. There is no one that I would rather work with on a Magento or WordPress project. He is an asset in work and in life.

LinkedIn publications


I'm proude of these, Smarter with Magento


To understand data and to be able to use it are two different things.

Let me highlight the REAL TIME factor! That’s beyond Magento and you need something more for data aggregation.

At BAVauto (BMW) I have designed and built from scratch a system based on a few idea what I had for long time. I am glad BAVauto was open enough and it was a win-win project at the end.
It was very powerful and based on Elasticsearch, Microservices (python), Magento and their ERP. I built a microservice layer between all of them to manage communication and enjoy other benefits of it. In the back-end this layer was able to provide fast response to Magento for instance based on Elasticsearch. I have built a complex data deployment process to deploy Product, Order and Customer data into Elasticsearch and top on that we were able to create and discover charts in Kibana immediately.
More importantly the microservice layer was able to deliver complex and front-end ready data to Magento. As a result of this architect we had some very powerful modules what you can see below.
Please take your time and have a look:

2018

www.BAVauto.com

TAKES 6ms !

Collecting all bundles from the full collection where the Simple one is part of the bundle. In real time and without reducing page load time.

magento bundles real time collection
2018

www.BAVauto.com

TAKES 10ms !

Yes, it’s possible. In real time and without reducing page load time to make an aggregation on previous orders in a time frame.

real time others bought these too
2018

www.BAVauto.com

TAKES ~10ms !

Bundle provides relation between products! Can be handy to offer them too. Collection is there in real time without reducing page load.

real time bundle based relation collection
2018

www.BAVauto.com/buy-again

TAKES 5-10ms !

Display Order history and their products like a product list page in order what has been bought most. The page super fast because data comes from ElasticSearch.

magento buy again

I'm Proud of Architect

Under the hood the architect of Magento solution


magento architect
magento architect

Data Visualization

Log and/or error report file analysis

REAL TIME, Zoom-able, Multi Dashboard


2017 - 2019

www.BAVauto.com

The beauty is this doesn't affect Magento's DB at all

REAL TIME server logs to detect anomalies or even attacks. Very powerful tool for troubleshooting Magento.

Enterprise level data queue system for multi server environment to deliver real time data for visualization.

Similar to Newrelic but here you can deal with exact Apache/Nginx/Redis/Memcache/Magento log files.

Professional and self hosted.

magento elasticsearch monitoring
magento log data visualization dashboard

Orders, Products, Customers can be analysed in real time to help business/marketing decisions and provide also valuable feedbacks.

2017 - 2019

www.BAVauto.com

The beauty is this doesn't affect Magento's DB at all

REAL TIME Magento Orders, Products, Shipping statistics, Order related product insights…. Real time and without affecting Magento's DB

Enterprise level data queue system for multi server environment to deliver real time data for visualization.

Similar to Newrelic but here you can deal with exact Apache/Nginx/Redis/Memcache/Magento log files.

Professional and self hosted.

magento data visualization with elasticsearch, ELK

Data Science Project


Own idea, own project

It's a service based on data deployment by API to provide insights and fast aggregated data for Magento 2 shops.

2019 - 2020

I have started to design, architect and develop it from scratch based on own ideas. The goal is to achieve a multi user system to provide statistics, prediction and suggestion based on historical and actual data. Data can be provided by each user via Rest API interface. Users can access the outcome on their own dashboard(s) and also via Rest API.

Progressive Web Application (PWA) Demo


Works like a native app, also when you are offline!

CLICK TO SEE THE REAL PWA DEMO !

Ecommerce projects


As a Lead Magento dev., Director of technology, Head of IT

2021 - 2022

BYL - bylconnect.co.uk

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As Head of IT, I had to design and build a multi Magento system for a big number of SUPPLIERs and on the other side thousands of SELLERs (as stores). This setup requires a high performance architect to manage both sides and all the stores. Translate business requirements to stories and tasks, then support the Developer team, QA team and DevOps to make these happen.

2019 - 2020

Mediotype.com


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As a Magento developer and project tech leader I'm so excited to work at Mediotype with so many strong and very talented developers. I'm working on Magento Commerce Cloud projects like ZAGG.

2019 - 2018

www.BAVauto.com

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Bavarian AutoSport - BMW & MINI. Architect, performance and data related solutions. Start to use Elasticsearch for Products, Orders and Logs. Kibana for data visualization. Microservice solutions for fast data flow and big data handling. SEO improvements and work out a business related information board. Real time data messaging system to collect different historical data from different areas and visualize that

2017

www.xdesk.com

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B2C site. I had to design and architect the whole website based on Magento 2. I had to design development workflow, git, kanban board, agile also. Customized solutions for extra fast page load.

2017

www.evodesk.com

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Legacy issues, troubleshooting and designing migration to Magento 2

2017

demmelearning.com

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Magento 2 CE solution what parts of a 4 systems architect with Rest API connection. Major implementation is SAML single sign in and log out for more than 300k students

2017

channelfireball.com

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Magento CE 2. Card game business with 3M items and growing. Buy Back program and card validation system with specific workflow in back end and customer side also. Custom multi channel selling and custom ERP integration.

As a Back-End Magento developer

2016

www.wirelesszone.com

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B2B site. Website did not launch yet. Custom SAML login as User and after that as Customer. Top on Magento customers there is a User Type level based on IdP. Solr custom search. Architect and design.

2016

www.mossberg.com

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Magento 2.0 EE - Core fixing vendor/magento/module-catalog-search/Model/Adapter/Mysql/Plugin/Aggregation/Category/DataProvider.php
Problem was in the data provider for filter navigation. Line 77-78

2016

www.partsvu.com

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200K products , B2B, ERP, warehouse and quickbook back-end connections. Solr for search and Elasticsearch for customized back-end search. Varnish ready puncholeing for future. Special data imports from very different multiple vendors.

2016

www.nutiva.com

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Lead Magento developer, massive custome data imports.

2015

www.mrbeer.com
www.mrcider.com

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Architecture, Lead Magento developer, troubleshooting. Design and full stack setup for servers. Custom multi store solution.

2015

www.skinmedica.com

Magento 1 Logo

Back-end development, Architecture, custom extension development, full stack server setup

Magento projects before 2014

2014

www.DeBeers.com

Magento 1 Logo

Back-en development, SOLR Search Engine, Solr custom search in WordPress, Store Locator, Booking Appointment, Custom Imports, Search Relevancy...

2014

www.SolRepublic.com

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Small project, site was ready already. I had to touch SOLR Search Engine, to improve SEARCH RELEVANCY based on the company's roles.

2014

www.SportPursuit.com

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Back-end, GET MINI CART IN 30ms!, GET PRICES IN 40ms!, Session migration to Elasticsearch, Varnish FPC custom solutions

2013

www.AlexandAlexa.com

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Back-end, Session migration to Redis key-value server, Redis failover management, customise FPC-Ligthspeed, Dramatically reduced sitemap generation, Slow SQLs

2013

www.Sweatshop.co.uk

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Back-end, Custom checkout, Redis server, Tomcat Servlet container, Lucene-Solr Search server, Data migration from legacy site, Connection to SportsDirect, Pru Health validation, SALE items on CMS page

2013

www.Runnersworldstore.co.uk

Magento 1 Logo

Back-end, Custom checkout, Redis server, Tomcat Servlet container, Lucene-Solr Search server, Data migration from legacy site, Connection to SportsDirect, Runner\'s World validation

2012

www.Modelzone.co.uk

Magento 1 Logo

EE, Back-end, Varnish cache, Custom Pre-Order System, Redis for cache storage

2012

www.TheSignalbox.co.uk

Magento 1 Logo

EE, Back-end, Varnish cache, Custom Pre-Order System...

2012

www.eBrookes.co.uk

Magento 1 Logo

Back-end, more than 500 000 items, strong scripting

2012

www.OutdoorLook.co.uk

Magento 1 Logo

Back-end, Front-End

2012

www.BeckAndHersey.com

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Front-end development, export/import, custom development, jQuery

2012

www.Cavells.co.uk

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Front-end and back-end development, export/import, multi-store, Multi-search results on one search resulte page from different stores, custom development, jQuery, strict HTML and CSS

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