Endre Kosa

Endre Kosa

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Executive Director, Index Engineering at MSCI Inc.

  • Education

    • Lónyay Utcai Református Gimnázium

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    • Lónyay Utcai Református Gimnázium

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    • Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem

      2002 - 2007
      Master's degree Information Technology A

      Thesis work on integrated circuit design

    • Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem

      2007 - 2009
      Suspended Ph.D studies in Information Technology

      Algorithm design (MATLAB, Java, C++)

    • Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem

      2008 - 2012
      Master's degree Business Administration and Management, General A
  • Experience

    • Prolan Zrt.

      Nov 2007 - Sept 2011
      Software Developer

      Was responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of various software components from GUI apps to embedded processes. Designed and implemented a MATLAB-like scripting language, tailored to the specific needs of substation automation. #java #C++ #linux #GNU #embedded #automation #IEC61850

    • Evosoft

      Oct 2011 - Feb 2013
      Project Manager

      Relocation of an ongoing development project from Erlangen to Budapest. Built and lead a small dev team. Serving as technical lead, introduced an agile-like environment including automated build servers and FOSS-based development infrastructure. Served as contact person to project sponsors (Siemens, evosoft Germany). Elicited business requirements, transforming them into tech specs according to the applicable Siemens process framework. Conducted interviews, hired new people.#dotnet #csharp #c #c_plus_plus #vsDomain: industry automation, SCADA, crane automation, Siemens Show less

    • Omixon

      Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
      Software Engineering Contractor

      Did a variety of contract jobs for a then-startup biotech company. Mostly backend-side refactoring of a distributed DNA-sequencer.#java #biotech

    • Morgan Stanley

      Feb 2013 - Feb 2015
      Senior Java Consultant

      Employed as a senior developer in a small team. We were responsible for a variety of distributed software components of a B2B-tailored bond trading platform used by Morgan Stanley's London trading desk. We migrated a .NET-skewed solution to the Java platform to comply with Morgan Stanley's technology standards.#java #finance #bondtrading #algotrading

    • MSCI Inc.

      Feb 2015 - now

      Leading a technology group of 30+ devs, QA and DevOps experts. Accountable for a client-facing webapp suite and the underlying backend services. Responsible for additional Index Engineering projects, all related to the next generation of MSCI's index calculation capabilities.#java #react #agile #cloudnative #azure Started POCing a client-facing technology solution allowing our clients to interact directly with our index construction capabilities. Created the first CPU-bound index calculator of MSCI. Built a team from scratch to convert the PoC to a product.#java #javascript #svelte Started off as an individual contributor, prototyped a technology-research interaction component. Built and lead a 5-strong team, extending the solution to a firmwide standard for index construction. We managed to cut down time-to-market from 6 months to 3 weeks.#distributed #java #reactive #javascriptipt #indexing

      • Executive Director, Index Engineering

        Jan 2021 - now
      • Vice President, Index Engineering

        Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
      • Senior Associate, Performance IT

        Feb 2015 - Dec 2017
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Felsőfokú nyelvvizsga (német - általános)

      Jan 2016
    • Goethe-Zertifikat C1

      Goethe-Institut
      Jan 2016
    • Certificate of Proficiency in English

      University of Cambridge
      Aug 2010
    • Felsőfokú nyelvvizsga (angol - általános)

      Jan 2010
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Endre Kosa
      Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic Hungarian Ministry of Education 2006 The top performers (0.8%) of each university are awarded to recognize their efforts.
    • Awarded to Endre Kosa
      Excellence of Faculty Award Péter Pázmány Catholic University 2005