# Tibor Vass

> Software Engineer at Docker, Inc. (Formerly dotCloud, Inc.)

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tibor

I'm a software engineer in a developer-oriented / distributed systems tech world, always looking to learn more and to bring my modest contributions to high-impact industries. I have reasonably good soft skills and work well in teams. Concerned about energy issues and climate change.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Docker, Inc. (Formerly dotCloud, Inc.)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Docker/Moby Open Source Core Maintainer: https://github.com/docker/docker and more specifically docker build with its new BuildKit backend https://github.com/moby/buildkit 
- General OSS maintenance: design review, Go code review on Github, issue triage, bug fixes, CI maintenance
- Release management (git repositories, tags, scripts, infra)
- Parallelized tests to run distributed on multiple nodes
- Was oncall for docker installation failures
- Did backports to Docker CE/EE products
- Worked on Docker Windows client (to Linux server)
- Worked on the new Docker Plugins architecture
- Wrote Go test coverage tool for servers: http://github.com/tiborvass/servercover
- Learned some advanced git skills (e.g., git filter-branch, extracting git history, some git internals)
- Hacked on bittorrent version of docker pull
- Familiar with difficulty of untangling intricately linked problems
- Conference talks (DockerCon, POSSCON, APIDays), demos
- 2y of remote work from home

### Site Reliability Engineer @ StumbleUpon
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Monitoring of high-availability large distributed systems, management of 1500+ servers, finding root causes of problems
- Learned to use Nagios, Ganglia, OpenTSDB, New Relic, Fabric, Puppet (with a master)
- Upgraded machines via scripts using PXEBooting
- Oncall, wrote Post Mortems, made human mistakes, kept oncall checklist updated
- Debugged infra issues (Hadoop, Zookeeper) as well as PHP application issues

### SRE Intern @ StumbleUpon
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Monitoring of high-availability large distributed systems, management of 1500+ servers, finding root causes of problems

### Software Engineer / Web Developer @ Webshell / OAuth.io
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Paris, France
API design, programming language design, Web UI/UX, developer evangelism

### Android Project Manager & Developer @ 4th Main Health SAS
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Development of an Android game that helps tracking diabetes (final year project at EPITA)

### Web developer (intern) @ Devispresto.com
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Levallois-Perret, France
Web development in PHP/MySQL with Zend Framework and jQuery


## Education
### Master in Multimedia and Information Technologies
EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique

### Erasmus in Computer Science
Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018

### Classe préparatoire in MP
Lycée Berthollet d'Annecy

### Baccalauréat in Scientifique
Lycée Français de Budapest


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tiborvass

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Last updated: 2026-03-29