Simon Istvan is a tech expert with 16+ years of experience designing and developing software products and services for web scale. His passion for product development and back-end service design at web scale led him to help companies such as Microsoft and TCS Hungary. Mr. Istvan has a Master's degree in Computer Science and a strong background in information retrieval, web search, and distributed systems. He is the founder and CEO of Prefixbox, a company that specializes in providing search solutions for e-commerce businesses. He believes in engineer-driven teams and possesses excellent leadership skills that drive a team to unite and solve interesting problems. Mr. Istvan's personal interests include building a vineyard with his father.