Ákos Szokodi is a full-stack software engineer based in the Netherlands with 11 years of experience crafting pragmatic, well-designed software across frontend and backend stacks. He champions simplicity, clean code, testing, and UX-aware design while advocating that the right solution is not always to write more code and that soft skills matter as much as technical ones. At Reaktor he blends client-facing delivery with talent growth activities and has helped seed culture in new offices as a cultural ambassador. An active open-source contributor, he has materially improved Typegoose by adding enum/array support and instance/static methods to make TypeScript + Mongoose modeling more ergonomic. Trained in fault-tolerant system design, he continually shares knowledge through blogging and seeks technologies to fit problems rather than vice versa.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering BSc, System design, Computer Engineering BSc, System design at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Typegoose - Define Mongoose models using TypeScript classes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:117 commits, 26 PRs, 76 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ákos primarily contributed to the development of the `typegoose` library, a TypeScript-based library for defining Mongoose models. Their work included adding new features such as enum and array support, as well as updating and refactoring existing APIs. Additionally, the user focused on improving the library's functionality by introducing support for instance and static methods, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the library's core capabilities.
Contributions:166 commits, 123 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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