Kristof Torma
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
Technical lead and Scrum Master in DevOps and infrastructure at Nokia, working with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and multi-cloud platforms, and building in-house AI tooling for engineering organizations from code review agents to adoption metrics.
Experience
Technical Lead and Scrum Master @ Nokia
February 2024 - Current
- Built an in-house AI code review agent that undercut commercial tooling on cost, and rolled it out across multiple organizations.
- Built a tool that visualizes AI-assisted code usage, after evaluating git-native approaches to attributing it.
- Lead a DevOps team that has varied between 6 and 12 engineers.
- Established and now lead an internal Infra Team that owns the testing and development labs.
- Introduced the gating that gives QA one validated product build per day.
- Took part in building out the R&D organization, onboarding new teams and formalizing its processes as it grew.
- Co-authored the code review standards and the scope and change management processes with QA and product stakeholders.
DevOps Engineer @ Nokia
March 2022 - February 2024
- Designed and implemented an internal API that provisions Kubernetes clusters on AWS and Azure via Pulumi.
- Cut monthly AWS spend by 36% through a recurring cleanup of unused resources.
- Built self-service tooling for routine infrastructure tasks, taking the DevOps team out of the critical path for developer requests.
- Simplified lab infrastructure and developed automations that cut about 7 hours per week of manual maintenance.
- Resolved Kubernetes issues and built Kubernetes competence across the developer teams.
- Rewrote the developer documentation so new joiners could set up their environment without pairing with an existing engineer.
Group Lead @ KSZK, Schonherz Dormitory, BME
February 2020 - February 2022
- Led KSZK, the roughly 50-member student IT group that runs the dormitory’s network and server infrastructure.
- Set the group’s technical direction, facilitated its meetings and introduced DevOps practices to the community.
- Brought the wider dormitory’s requirements into the group and advocated for the group’s needs in budget negotiations.
- Ran semesterly performance reviews for the group’s roughly 50 members.
- Administered the mailing list server processing over 2,000 emails a day and ran mission-critical services including Hyper-V and Kubernetes.
- Migrated the dormitory’s mail infrastructure to Exchange Online and its public-facing DNS zones to a managed cloud provider.
Research Assistant @ Budapest University of Technology and Economics
February 2020 - January 2022
- Created a Kubernetes-native system in a 5G network capable of identifying bird song.
- Adapted the system to an edge-computing environment and identified its performance bottlenecks.
Research Intern @ Ericsson
June 2019 - August 2019
- Built a TOSCA parser and integrated it with Ericsson’s in-house infrastructure.
- Deployed Python web applications on Docker-based infrastructure.
Skills
- AI-assisted development and in-house AI tooling built on Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Perplexity
- Kubernetes and OpenShift, with Helm for packaging and deployment
- Infrastructure as code with Terraform, Pulumi and Ansible
- CI/CD with Jenkins, Drone, GitHub Actions and GitLab CI
- AWS, Azure and on-prem cloud platforms
- Python for automation, internal tooling and Flask microservices
- Cisco, Juniper and Arista network administration on Linux-based infrastructure
- Hyper-V and KVM virtualization
- Scrum facilitation and technical leadership of engineering teams
Community
- Organize Ctrl-Alt-GG, a bilingual Hungarian and English gaming community in Budapest.
- Run LAN party events of roughly 50 attendees, building the event network, game servers and supporting services.
Languages
- Hungarian (native)
- English (fluent)