About me

I was about ten when I first met with a real computer: it was our neighbour's Commodore 64. I was so excited that my dad had to buy one for us. I liked games, but I more liked the fact I can make the computer to ask some input from me then output them differently on the screen. A few years later my parents enrolled me in a course where I learned how to use Windows 3.1 professionally and how to code in Basic. I'm not saying I was a kid genius, but my interest in computers was very obvious from an early age. I was already deeply in love with movies, but computers seemed to be my new passion.

I built my first PC mainly to write songs with Fast Tracker 2, but it also helped me to manage my massive VHS catalog. Then I become a big fan of diskmags. I ripped apart their compiled codebase to see how they worked. I already wrote a few Basic programs by that time, but it was just a hobby. Over the years, I learned about Turbo Pascal, Perl, and became very familiar with CorelDRAW products and Paint Shop Pro.

Then came the internet. I started coding websites with Netscape Navigator and FrontPage Express using the earliest versions of HTML and CSS, when I only had access to the internet through a dial-up modem. In my twenties, I launched a portal about movies and began to build websites for schools, small businesses, festivals and webshops.

In 2005, I needed something more permanent, so I learnt building websites with TYPO3 running on PHP 5. Years later, I tried myself a freelancer, but I had no real strategy. After two challenging years, rent and bills eventually won, and continued my agency career. I have been an employee since 2013 until massive lay-off waves in 2023 finally also reached me. In the past decade, I have worked for creative agencies, software products and even large corporate machines. Nowadays, I'm freelancing, contracting and working on my own ideas.

I have been building websites and web applications for 25 years now. I started as a web designer, but found myself more excited about site-building, then learned the basics of a proficient PHP developer. I find myself more satisfied with backend programming, but things like Tailwind and VueJS drew my attention back to frontend. I adore JAMstack, had numerious succesful adventures in mobile development and gained necessary devops knowledge to run servers and deploy however I prefer. My curiosity knows no boundaries.

I was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary, but I moved to England in 2017 and restarted climbing the career ladder from the bottom. In just five years, I have achieved most goals I have imagined in my career, nowadays I'm only motivated by building.

Although I've worked mainly in web development in the past two decades, I consider myself an open-minded software engineer, eager to learn and explore everything that advances my experience and keeps my brain engaged. I've been working from my home office since COVID-19, but I frequently appear in local meetups or spend the day in co-working spaces. Since 2023 I have a growing interest about solopreneurship and building products.

In my free time, I'm a geek dad in his 40s who collects records, going to concerts, theatre, read sci-fi, and love to spend time in the nature.