Kristof Torma
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
Technical Lead and Scrum Master in DevOps and infrastructure at Nokia. Builds greenfield Kubernetes platforms with infrastructure as code, and in-house AI tooling 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, now used by three R&D organizations, at under a third the cost of the commercial alternative.
- Built a tool that visualizes AI-assisted code usage across the organization.
- Run a DevOps team of up to 12 engineers, averaging under a week from bug report to resolution and the fastest of the R&D organization’s six teams.
- Established an internal Infra Team that built and owns the testing and development labs.
- Introduced the CI quality gates that give QA one validated product build per day.
- Onboarded three teams into a greenfield R&D organization and formalized its development 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 (part-time, alongside MSc)
February 2020 - February 2022
- Led KSZK, the roughly 50-member student IT group that runs the dormitory’s network and server infrastructure, and introduced DevOps practices to it.
- Administered the mailing list server processing over 2,000 emails a day and ran production 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 (part-time, alongside MSc)
February 2020 - January 2022
- Built a Kubernetes-native birdsong identification system over 5G as MSc thesis work, then adapted it to edge computing and profiled its 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 and GitHub Copilot
- Kubernetes and OpenShift, with Helm for packaging and operators for cluster-native automation
- Infrastructure as code with Terraform, Pulumi and Ansible
- CI/CD with Jenkins, Drone, GitHub Actions and GitLab CI
- AWS, Azure and on-premises 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/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)