Attila Tőkés

Attila Tőkés

Software Engineer | Maker

Skills

Java • Spring Boot
AI • Gen-AI • ML • LLM-s • Python
LangChain • LangGraph
Amazon Bedrock • SageMaker
Azure OpenAI • AI Foundry
AWS • Azure
Kubernetes • Docker • Istio
Distributed Systems • System Design • Software Architecture
Git • Maven • Gradle

Online Presence

GitHubGithub:
@bluetiger9 / @attila-tokes
(45+ repos, 600+ stars, 50+ followers)
GitHubHackster.io: @bluetiger9
(35+ projects, 22+ awards,
200+ followers, 500+ likes)
GitHubElement14: @bluetiger9
(10+ projects & product reviews)

Education

Technical University
of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN)

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Master’s Degree (MSc)
Computer Science
2013 - 2015

Thesis: Study and Experiments about the Scalability and Fault Tolerance of NoSQL Database Systems
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Engineer’s Degree (BSc)
Computer Science
2009 - 2013

Thesis: Study and Experiments about the Performance, Reliability and Usability of NoSQL Database Systems

Master’s & Engineer’s
Degree (MSc & BSc)

Technical University
of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN)
Computer Science
2009 - 2015


Languages

English, Hungarian, Romanian

Profile

Experienced Software Engineer specializing in Gen-AI / LLMs / Argentic Systems, high performance distributed systems and Java based back-end development.

Focused on integrating advanced AI and LLMs into real-world solutions, building copilots, agentic automations, and multi-agent systems. Hands-on with wide range of LLMs (Claude, GPT-4, Grok, DeepSeek, LLama, Cohere, etc.).

As a hobby, I build hardware projects that mix IoT, AI / ML, robotics and electronics.

Professional Experience

RWS GroupRWS GROUP (former SDL)

Technical Lead

July 2023 - Present

Working as a Gen-AI Expert and Tech Lead on Trados, the leading translation platform with 300K+ active accounts. Tech Owner of the Platform System domain.

Technologies: Java 17+, Python, LangChain / LangGraph, Amazon Bedrock (Claude), Azure AI (OpenAI, LLama, Grok, etc), Amazon SageMaker

Achievements:
  • Architecting and coordinating cross-platform initiatives (security, AI essentials)
  • Designed and built Trados Copilot, a chatbot with advanced RAG, intent detection, reporting, and experimental actions support
  • Developed internal AI agents for optimizing and automating internal processes (e.g. production issue investigation)
  • Created a custom library for chatbots and AI agents, built over LangGraph, with advanced templating and tracing capabilities
  • Did PoCs on Gen-AI topics (RAG on source code, advanced chunking and summarization, translation style guide extraction & querying)

Senior Software Engineer

May 2020 - July 2023

Worked on the Trados platform, the cloud-native intelligent translation solution. In the Platform System team, lead and contributed to platform wide initiatives.

Technologies: Java 17+, Python, AI/ML, Kubernetes, Istio, AWS, MongoDB, Redis

Achievements:
  • Built and maintained a set of Core libraries, a Blueprint and a number of Platform services used by 140+ micro-services Built and maintained libraries and platform services used by 140+ micro-services
  • Conducted PoC-s on different topics (Cloud Native, AI/ML, etc.)
  • Conducted the migration of the platform to use the Istio service mesh
  • Re-implemented the custom OAuth2 authorization server used in the platform
  • Implemented a platform wide Rate-limiting functionality
  • Introduced the use of auto-generated SDK-s in the platform
TORATORA TRADING SERVICES

Software Engineer

Oct 2012 - May 2020

Worked on TORA Compass, a trading system used by investment banks, and built on a highly distributed back-end with low latency and fault-tolerance capabilities.

Technologies: Java 8+, PostgreSQL, AWS, Linux, JS, HTML5, CSS3, WS

Achievements:
  • Designed and built several fault-tolerant micro-services from ground up (ex. automated trading, real-time alerting, historical market data)
  • Built high-performance components (ex. data processing and expression evaluation engine with custom thread pool, processing millions of events / sec)

Personal Projects

As an active member on Hackster.io and Element14 Community, I do various IoT and Electronics projects. Starting from March 2022, I'm also a member of Edge Impulse's expert network.

Some technologies involved are: Bluethooth Low Energy (BLE), WiFi, GSM, LoRa, SigFox, OpenCV, GStreamer, DeepStream, C++, NodeJS, Python, Raspberry Pi, Blockchain, AI / ML, Tensorflow.

Occasionally, I participate in design contests and do RoadTest reviews on products like test instruments and IoT platforms.

As an active member on Hackster.io and Element14 Community, I do various IoT and Electronics projects, participate in design contests and do RoadTest reviews on products like test instruments and IoT platforms.