István Jancsó

Senior platform and test engineer with 15+ years of experience. I started my career at a VR startup as a programmer, and later moved more towards developer infrastructure and tooling. After that I had two roles where I got closer to testing as well (testing a flight simulator, and working on automotive navigation software).

In my current role I maintain and develop scripts in Python, administer Linux servers, manage CI/CD pipelines. I am currently based in Europe, but our family relocation to Christchurch is already in progress.

Senior Platform Engineer at Morgan Stanley (2019-01 – Present)

• Mission-Critical Infrastructure: Architect and maintain high-availability backend platforms
• System Engineering: Manage complex Linux (RHEL) environments
• Security: Refactor and secure legacy Perl/Python/Bash systems, fixing long-standing security gaps, and eliminate systematic vulnerabilities
• CI/CD Pipeline Engineering: Optimize automated deployment pipelines to reduce release cycles and improve deployment reliability and traceability
• Observability & Monitoring: Built observability frameworks for real-time health monitoring

Test Automation Engineer at NNG LLC (2016-01 – 2018-12)

• Contributed to automotive navigation software used by major car manufacturers
• Built and maintained Python-based automated test frameworks
• Contributed to CI/CD adoption across teams
• Extended automation to Android-based iGO products
• Delivered technical onboarding training for new hires

Software / Test Engineer at CAE Engineering (2014-01 – 2015-12)

• Maintained test systems for flight simulator software
• Developed test tooling in C# and Java, XML-based scenarios
• Worked in an English-speaking multinational environment

Software Developer at Leonar3Do (2006-01 – 2013-12)

• Early employee in a VR startup, scaling from 3 to ~30 people
• Helped commercialize an Intel ISEF award-winning VR system
• Built and maintained Linux-based development infrastructure
• Created UI parts and plugins (C++, Qt, JUCE)

BSc in Computer Science / Engineering – Obuda University (2000-01 – 2006-12)