Akos Kiss
CEO at BabyBox
Szeged, South Great Plain, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolAkos Kiss is a CEO and seasoned technology professional with 21 years of experience bridging embedded systems engineering and product leadership from Szeged, Hungary. He combines hands-on low-level IoT and AVR simulator contributions—improving LCD simulation, memory handling and JS engine libc behavior—with strategic roles in project and pricing management. As founder of BabyBox since 2012 he pairs entrepreneurial drive with deep technical rigor demonstrated by bug fixes, memory-leak resolutions and CI/tooling improvements in notable open-source projects like simavr, IoT.js and JerryScript. Comfortable moving between code and business, he brings a rare mix of systems-level debugging expertise and commercial decision-making grounded in a Master’s in Business/Managerial Economics.
21 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Business/Managerial Economics, Master's degree, Business/Managerial Economics at University of Szeged
Github Skills (22)
c-language10
simulator10
memory-management10
c1110
c1710
avr10
iot10
system-calls10
sys10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
architecture9
javascript9
avr-gcc9
valgrind9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jerryscript-project/jerryscript
May 2015 - Jan 2021
Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:227 reviews, 321 commits, 610 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Akos primarily worked on improving the jerry-libc, adding an `abort()` function for process termination and the related syscall implementations. They also made the `jerry_fatal` function's behavior configurable to call `abort()` in case of failures. Furthermore, the user updated the existing unit tests to incorporate these changes and fixed documentation issues.
javascript-enginejerryscriptjavascriptruntimeultra
jerryscript-project/iotjs
Feb 2016 - Jul 2019
Platform for Internet of Things with JavaScript http://www.iotjs.net
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 26 commits, 44 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Akos primarily contributed to the IoT.js project by addressing various issues related to code quality, string handling, and memory management. They refactored code to be more robust, fixed memory leaks detected by Valgrind, and optimized string operations. The user also updated the libtuv submodule, implemented a tool for memory statistics, and made improvements to the Travis CI configuration, demonstrating a focus on building a stable and efficient IoT platform.
javascriptiot-frameworkiotjsinternetinternet-of-things
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