Hi, I'm Szabolcs, a Staff Software Engineer with 20+ years of experience across startups and global tech companies. I’ve worked extensively with the latest web technologies, distributed systems, service development for regulated environments, and I enjoy building scalable, well-structured solutions that stand the test of time. I’m a hands-on problem solver who cares about clean architecture, UX, and DevEx, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Alongside my engineering work, I’ve been actively involved in the international tech community as a speaker and organizer. Based in Norway and actively learning Norwegian, I’m looking to share my experience in a meaningful, long-term role.
Work experience
Staff engineer
BinX Zrt • 2022 - present
- Work with the engineering team and business development to create a new financial service from the ground up
- My team's responsibility is to design the architecture and develop the service that lead the clients through the automated onboarding flow. This onboarding procedure includes a fully automated KYC and KYB check, with the possibility of manual intervention is necessary
- We maintain the internal backoffice administration interface, where customer support, compliance and financial teams can overview and manage onboarding flows as well as customer and user data
- Lead the design and development of our audited 4-eye approval system where any data change of the financial services can be approved by assigned team members
Founder & organizer
JSSC Event organizing, private company • 2017 - 2025
- Company management
- Financial management
- Event organizing
Senior engineer
IBM Cloud • 2019 - 2022
- Design and implement an opinionated DevSecOps pipeline for "continous compliance". Aim of this toolchain to help teams transparently stay audit-ready during their daily work.
- Delegate of IBM for ECMA's TC39
- Developing user facing Cloud UI's and microservices in React and Node.js
Senior frontend engineer
IBM Cloud Video (formerly Ustream, acquired by IBM) • 2016 - 2019
- Finding solutions to a backend-for-frontend system using React, to feature i18n, SSR, code splitting and Redux state management
- Transforming a huge legacy JS codebase to module and webpack
- Driving procedures to have a meetup location at our office
- Developed and participated in the design process of a Caption Editor for both Cloud Video and Watson Media
- Planned and developed the Node.js based service for our Q&A allpication
Senior frontend engineer
Ustream Inc, startup • 2009 - 2016
- Early development of mobile video/live player, with ad integration
- Embedable player for both mobile and desktop (core desktop player was flash based by another team)
- Created core interactive modules like chat, social message wall
- Helped desiging, and creating a custom MVC framework for the site JS codebase
- Finished several iterations on the whole site design together with the team
- Active participation in recruitment, interviewing
Technologies and skills
- Languages: English, Hungarian, currently learning Norwegian
- Code: TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, React, HTML, CSS, SASS/SCSS, Go, PHP, Bash
- Frameworks & libraries: Fastify, Express, Hapi, sequelize, liquibase, React, react-router, nextjs, react-query, zustand
- Deployment & operations: npm, AWS, linux systems, git/github/gitlab, Docker, Chef, Kubernetes, Tekton CI/CD, Hashicorp Vault, TravisCI, TeamCity
- Architecture: Event-driven, CQRS, microservices, REST API, RPC, Server worker architecture
- Design: web, responsive web, Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator
Speaking engagements
Craft Conference 2014
JavaScript Module Server
Budapest, Hungary • Apr 23-25, 2014
Community work
JSConf Budapest 2015 - 2024
jsconfbp.com • Curator, chief organizer
JSConf Budapest was the part of the international JSConf family
Curated and organized 6 successful events, even after COVID:
- 2 day, single track event
- 92 speakers and more than 2500 attendees since 2015
- Focused on technology, culture, diversity and inclusivity
- My participation was in curating the lineup, organizing venue, catering, hotel and flight arrangements and sponsor negotiations
CSSConf Budapest 2016 - 2019
Organizer
- CSSConf Budapest is the part of the international CSSConf family
- single day single track event
- 27 speakers and ~800 attendees since 2016
- Organized and helped at 3 successful events
- My participation was in organizing venue, catering, hotel and flight arrangements and sponsor negotiations
Frontend Meetup Budapest 2018 - present
Co-Organizer
- Helping around the meetup organization, speakers, venues
- Occasional MCing at the events
Global Diversity CFP Day Workshop 2018 - present
Mentor, facilitator
- Helping around the organization, mentors, venue
- Mentoring at the workshop itself