Márk Sági Kazár
About Márk Sági Kazár
Márk Sági Kazár is the Head of OSS and Founding Engineer at OpenMeter, with a background in open source technology and software development. He has held various positions, including Cloud Native Ambassador at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Open Source Tech Lead at Cisco.
Work at OpenMeter
Márk Sági Kazár serves as the Head of OSS and Founding Engineer at OpenMeter since 2023. In this role, he is responsible for devising and executing strategies to build the platform in collaboration with colleagues and the community. His work includes contributing to the development of the Kubernetes Helm Chart for OpenMeter and working on testing stream processing with Benthos. He has also been involved in the development of a consistent Kafka Consumer.
Previous Experience at Cisco
Márk worked at Cisco as an Open Source Tech Lead for seven months in 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. Prior to this role, he served as an SRE Tech Lead at Cisco from 2021 to 2023 for two years. His responsibilities included overseeing site reliability engineering practices and contributing to open source initiatives.
Background in Software Development
Márk has a solid background in software development, having worked as a Senior PHP Developer at deepblue networks AG from 2015 to 2016. He also contributed to FuelPHP as a Core Developer from 2014 to 2018. His experience includes regular contributions to various open source projects and the development of several open source libraries and applications.
Education and Expertise
Márk studied Computer Engineering at John Von Neumann University, achieving a Bachelor of IT Engineering from 2016 to 2024. He also attended Debreceni Egyetem for one year from 2014 to 2015 and completed his secondary education at Balassi Bálint Nyolcévfolyamos Gimnázium from 2007 to 2012. His educational background supports his expertise in cloud-native technologies and software development.
Contributions to Open Source
Márk has authored and maintains several open source libraries and applications. He regularly contributes to various open source projects and has written extensively on topics such as metering container CPU time and pod execution time on Kubernetes. His work also includes comparing lifecycle event and heartbeat-driven metering.