Mark Laszlo

Budapest, Hungary· (+36) 30 410 7977 · hello@marklaszlo.com

I am working as an AWS Architect contractor at Waeg, an IBM Company

I design, deliver, and operate cloud-based projects using AWS infrastructure services.

I am a proud member of the AWS Community Builders program. This program offers technical resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities to AWS enthusiasts and emerging thought leaders who are passionate about sharing knowledge and connecting with the technical community.

I used to be a Technical Support Engineer at Viostream in Sydney, Australia. Before life at Viostream, I was a Technical Resolution Manager at IBM Budapest Lab. I have a Master‘s degree from Aarhus University, Denmark, my Bachelor's Degree is in Electrical Engineering, therefore, I am really interested in new technologies and IT.

I have earned the following certificates:

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
  • AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate
  • AWS Certified Big Data - Speciality
  • Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect

  • I have a great deal of stamina and work hard. I like being busy and productive. I always consider all the factors that might affect a situation. I prioritize, then act. take a direction, follow through, and make the corrections necessary to stay on track.

    Experience

    AWS Architect

    Waeg, an IBM Company - Brussels, Belgium - Remote

  • Waeg, an IBM Company is a Platinum Salesforce Partner committed to improving your business.
  • Our mission is to unlock value and productivity in companies. We help companies perform better in a high-speed, complex and connected economy. As a Salesforce Partner we provide certified consultancy for your business.
  • Our team is our main asset. We are a group of certified business and technology consultants working together, continuously inspiring each other to improve our skills to add value for our customers. We are experienced in various industries and work together to provide a solution that transforms your business through the power of the cloud.
  • September 2021 - Present

    Owner

  • Next Level Cloud Consulting. Hire best in class AWS Professionals On Demand

  • July 2020 - Present

    Senior Cloud Architect

    IAMOps Ltd - Tel-Aviv, Israel - Remote

  • Enable AWS cloud journey, create a business case, make the Cloud dream become reality.
  • Design and prototype cloud solutions, create solution architecture document covering deep technical aspects of the implementation.
  • Create a unified strategy for cloud transformation governance, automation, security, implementation and operations.
  • Maintain project progress and documentation using Jira/Confluence.
  • Analyse existing application portfolios, develop next-gen application architecture, transformation and modernisation roadmap.
  • Conduct cloud solutions architecture review/audit and create review/audit report.

  • March 2020 - August 2021

    Cloud Engineer

    TC2 - Budapest, Hungary

  • Architect scalable, cloud-based, secure, and extensible solutions to accommodate project needs using applicable AWS infrastructure services
  • Consults and makes recommendations on cloud-based application deployments to ensure that they follow best practices in the areas of security, availability, redundancy, cost optimization, and compliance controls.
  • Configure and maintain AWS infrastructure, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security
  • Provide high-level and detailed consultative solutions and technical support for cloud-related opportunities

  • September 2019 - August 2021

    Technical Support Engineer

    Viostream - Sydney, Australia

    As part of the Infrastructure team I deal with unique problems every day.

  • Implementing Infrastructure as a Code projects with Terraform
  • Resolve customer problems via telephone, email or remote access
  • Managing live events

  • Nov 2017 - May 2019

    Technical Resolution Manager

    IBM Budapest Lab - Budapest, Hungary

    After the acquisition of Ustream my position changed to Technical Resolution Manager. I was responsible for leading critical situation resolutions, resolution of customer satisfaction issues, planning, tracking and monitoring these resolution processes. My goal was to keep the customers' business perspectives as number one priority.

    April 2017 - October 2017

    Tier 3 Support Coordinator

    Ustream - Budapest, Hungary

    Handling live events and critical situations Coordinating arising issues between developers Track, monitor and report resolution activities Communication between the Customer Success Team and the Engineering Team

    October 2016 - April 2017

    Student Assistant

    Agro Intelligence ApS - Aarhus, Denmark

    Aarhus-based start-up company mainly focusing on robotic and automatization in agricultural projects. My job was focusing on data mining and data analysis with Matlab.

    February 2016 - April 2016

    Education

    Aarhus University - Aarhus, Denmark

    Master of Science - Technology Based Business Development

    The MSc in Engineering – Technology Based Business Development is a research-based programme focusing on technology management, technology implementation, and engineering management.

    August 2015 - June 2017

    Fachhochschule Ulm - Hochschule für Technik - Ulm, Germany

    Bachelor of Science - Electrical engineering

    Bachelor thesis - Designed a flexible controller for an old heating system. The system was controlled with Raspberry Pi.

    March 2015- June 2015

    Óbudai Egyetem Kandó Kálmán Villamosmérnöki Kar - Budapest, Hungary

    Bachelor of Science - Electrical engineering

    Specialized in Industrial Automation - All the courses are entirely in English - Microproccessor, ARM programming - Knowledge of C and Perl programming language - Basic knowledge of Matlab

    September 2011 - June 2015

    Skills

    DevOps
    Customer Support
    Data Science

    Courses

    Foundations of Data Science: Computational Thinking with Python - BerkeleyX -edx.org - Results

    Intro to Relational Databases - Udacity - Results

    Introduction to Python Programming - Udacity - Results

    Introduction to Python: Creating Scalable, Robust, Interactive Code - Microsoft - edx.org - Results

    Introduction to Python: Fundamentals - Microsoft - edx.org - Results

    Querying Data with Transact-SQL - Microsoft - edx.org - Results

    Shell workshop - Udacity - Results

    Introduction to Python for Data Science - Microsoft - edx.org - Results

    Data Science Essentials - Microsoft - edx.org - Results

    Introduction to NoSQL Data Solutions - Microsoft - edx.org - Results

    Data Science: Probability - HarvardX - edx.org - Results

    Data Science: R Basics - HarvardX - edx.org - Results

    Data Science: Visualization - HarvardX - edx.org - Results

    Data Science: Inference and Modeling - HarvardX - edx.org - Results

    Foundations of Data Science: Inferential Thinking by Resampling - BerkeleyX -edx.org - Results

    Statistical Thinking for Data Science and Analytics - ColumbiaX -edx.org - Results

    Python for Data Science - UC San DiegoX -edx.org - Results

    Data Science: Productivity Tools - HarvardX -edx.org - Results

    Data Science: Wrangling - HarvardX -edx.org - Results

    Foundations of Data Science: Prediction and Machine Learning - BerkeleyX -edx.org - Results

    Data Science: Linear Regression - HarvardX -edx.org - Results

    AWS Developer: Building on AWS - AWS -edx.org - Results

    Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies - Linux Foundation -edx.org - Results

    Introduction to DevOps: Transforming and Improving Operations - Linux Foundation -edx.org - Results

    AWS Developer: Optimizing on AWS - AWS -edx.org - Results

    AWS Developer: Deploying on AWS - AWS -edx.org - Results

    Cloud Computing Management - USMx -edx.org - Results

    Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies - BerkeleyX -edx.org - Results

    26 different A Cloud Guru courses - A Cloud Guru - Certificates

    Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Containers and Services - Coursera - Certificate

    Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation - Coursera - Certificate

    Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services - Coursera - Certificate

    Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Foundations - Coursera - Certificate

    Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure - Coursera - Certificate

    Reliable Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process - Coursera - Certificate

    Projects

      IT4IT in practice in a medium sized company

      During this research I've investigated how IT4IT can help to manage IT in a medium-scale Enterprise. It has been identified that 2 out 4 value streams' goals are very similar to DevOps' main principles, so simultaneous implementation of DevOps and IT4IT is possible.

      Video stream monitoring

      The popularity of the online video is continuously increasing and this statement is even more valid for online video streaming. However, video streaming requires a lot of resources and services. During this study different monitoring tools were tested and compared to best practices recommended by Dye.

      Optimize and innovate business processes with IT solutions in small scale enterprise

      This project is about how current IT solutions can help to optimize and innovate business processes in a small scale business, located in Hungary. Using different BI applications and a logistic application, some areas had been identified, where the company can improve their processes and also reduce costs. The project also gives a confirmation about, how seasons and weather impacts the enterprise's sales and profit.

      Route optimization for PostNord Aarhus

      The aim of the project was to find a solution for PostNord’s vehicle routing problem, in order to decrease the overtime of the workers. Several methods (heuristics, SmartVRP, Solver) was used during the project.