Emil Varga
Driving large-scale distributed systems & platform transformation for global impact.
Grad Pula, HR
Full time
Remote
Engineering leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling high-reliability platform organizations at Zalando and IBM. Expertise includes...
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My Career Journey
1/3
Zalando
Engineering Manager / Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2017 - Present | 9y 9m
Berlin, DE
Migrated 10-year legacy CDN from Akamai to CloudFront ($2M annual savings, zero downtime). Built video delivery platform powering 99% of Zalando video traffic; managed Tier-1 infra (~10 PB/month) without...
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Swrve
Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2012 - Jan 2017 | 5y
Refactored analytics pipeline, reducing reporting latency from 24h to 2-3h for platform handling 10M+ daily events. Delivered scalable event-processing and push-notification systems for global consumer...
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IBM
Staff Software Engineer / Software Engineer
Jan 2008 - Jan 2012 | 4y
Developed an internal file-sharing platform, dubbed 'IBM's answer to Dropbox.' Contributed to large-scale enterprise collaboration software used by millions. Was an early contributor to enterprise-grade...
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People Management
Team Performance Management
Mentorship
Coaching
Empathy
Most proud of (3/3)
1st
Being a dad of two lovely misfits who teach me every day how to look at the world in different perspectives
2nd
Being part of the team that built and drove the adoption of the video delivery platform in Zalando with built-in localisation for over 20 languages
3rd
Meeting countless amazing people across my career and having the opportunity to learn from them
Career Highlights
1/2
Growing and supporting engineers in their career path
People leadership
Berlin, DE,
I led over 20 people across multiple teams, hired over 10 engineers, and continuously coached...
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Driving adoption of the Video delivery platform
Platform Strategy
Berlin, DE,
Built the prototype and co-authored a VP-sponsored Video Platform strategy and drove company-wide...
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Fun fact about me
I started my first Engineering Manager role fully remote during the pandemic in the same time as I became a new dad. Flexibility, prioritisation and time management were key to survival then and continue to be key skills to this day.
