Árpád Fodor
Árpád Fodor

Escalation Team Lead / Technical Lead

Actively looking · Member since 9 Nov 2026
Location
Szigetszentmiklós, Hungary
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Hybrid / Full Time
Experience level
Lead

About

Professional summary

I am an escalation team lead and technical lead with more than 20 years of experience in enterprise technology, infrastructure, identity, and critical incident response. I currently lead global customer escalation delivery while remaining hands-on with complex technical investigations.

I have six years of experience leading a global escalation team at One Identity. I mentor engineers, coordinate priorities and resources with R&D, and represent the escalation function in discussions with product, support, and engineering stakeholders.

My technical background includes Active Directory, Entra ID, One Identity Active Roles, Windows Server, SQL Server, C#/.NET, PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, and Azure. I use this experience to investigate high-priority enterprise issues and translate customer impact into actionable product improvements.

I build automation and diagnostic tooling to make troubleshooting more repeatable and reduce manual work. My recent work also includes LLM tools, AI agent workflows, MCP servers, and distributed automation systems for diagnostics and task execution.

I am experienced in critical incident management, root-cause analysis, on-call coordination, and technical project delivery. I have supported global clients through infrastructure migrations, directory consolidation, server transformation, and complex production incidents.

I communicate complex technical topics clearly to customers, engineers, and business stakeholders. I am fluent in Hungarian and English and work remotely across the EMEA region from Budapest, Hungary.

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Experience

Career history

Escalation Team Lead / Technical Lead One Identity / Quest

Lead a global escalation team of 3–4 engineers and manage delivery for high-priority enterprise customer cases. Own prioritization of escalation-related R&D work, coordinate available engineering resources, track delivery outcomes, mentor engineers, and represent the escalation team with product, support, and R&D stakeholders.

Personally investigate complex identity and directory-service escalations through resolution, collaborating with R&D on confirmed product defects. Coordinate case triage through Salesforce and PagerDuty, manage on-call coverage, and deliver technical training for development and R&D teams.

Build C#/.NET, PowerShell, and Python automation to reduce repetitive troubleshooting and improve investigation consistency. Handled approximately 1,100 priority escalations over six years without SLA breaches; in the past year created 200+ tracked work items, investigated root cause for 61 bugs, and submitted 47 pull requests, 37 of which were merged.

Lead Engineer / Technical Project Manager (Wintel T&T) Swicon Hungary Ltd. (DXC contractor)

Provided technical leadership for an Active Directory consolidation involving more than 12,000 users across nine domains. Planned and executed server migration processes, including P2P, P2V, and V2V migrations, as well as inter-site replication and DHCP redesign.

Developed automation for core application upgrades and rollout across more than 600 Wintel servers. Managed multiple transition and transformation projects using waterfall delivery methods, aligned technical delivery with business goals, and provided RCA for critical Sev1 incidents.

Advisory Technical Consultant IBM DSS Hungary

Operated enterprise SharePoint infrastructure at L3 level for multiple customer accounts. Provided on-call support and maintained production service reliability.

Built automation for patching and monitoring activities to improve operational efficiency and consistency across the managed infrastructure.

Technology Consultant L3 / Infrastructure Specialist HPE Hungary Ltd. (formerly HP / EDS)

Designed and implemented complex Wintel infrastructure solutions for global clients. Delivered Active Directory migrations, antivirus deployments, and transition and transformation projects.

Built live-like QA validation environments to test infrastructure changes and support reliable delivery. Provided L3 infrastructure expertise for enterprise systems and complex customer environments.

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