Zsolt Gergő Varga
Hi, I’m Zsolt Gergő Varga, a lead backend engineer with 8+ years of experience designing scalable backend systems and distributed architectures for high-traffic marketplaces.
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Hi, I’m Zsolt Gergő Varga, a lead backend engineer with 8+ years of experience designing scalable backend systems and distributed architectures for high-traffic marketplaces. I specialize in building robust, observable services that support millions of daily requests and complex multi-country commerce operations.
I thrive on owning platform-level decisions, guiding architectural direction, and mentoring engineers. My work spans payments, subscriptions, cloud-native infrastructure, data pipelines, and event-driven designs. I’m driven by delivering reliable systems and impactful platform capabilities across Central Europe.
- 10 years' experience
- Joined March 2026
Industry experience
- Software & Internet
- Media & Entertainment
- Professional Services
Work experience· 5 roles
Designed and implemented distributed backend systems for a large-scale Central European B2B/B2C marketplace. Built services handling 5M+ API requests daily; developed payment and subscription backends; created high-volume data pipelines processing 500k+ records/hour; supported multi-currency and multi-timezone operations. Implemented event-driven workflows with queues/pub-sub; improved observability with OpenTelemetry; led on-call incident responses; mentored engineers and authored RFCs and architecture documents. Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Docker/Kubernetes deployments; worked with BigQuery and Google Cloud for analytics; contributed to launches across Central Europe including Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania.
Developed backend services supporting marketplace and product workflows; implemented multi-currency/timezone commerce; integrated payment providers, logistics, and analytics systems; built event-driven messaging using RabbitMQ; developed REST APIs; contributed to platform reliability and backend stability.
Developed backend services supporting advertisement insertion and moderation; handled high-volume marketplace traffic; contributed to B2B marketplace functionality; worked with large-scale data processing and backend workflows.
Education
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