Summary
Balázs Faragó is a pragmatic enterprise application developer with 10 years of experience building backend-first systems and leading engineering teams from Budapest. He has held senior technical and leadership roles—from CTO at a fintech company to hands-on development at Scale AI—bringing deep Java and Python expertise across Spring Boot, microservices, data processing and NLP. Balázs has a strong track record in financial and quant-focused systems (trader robots, large-scale data loaders, web scraping) and a penchant for mentoring, having taught advanced Java, React and microservices. Curious about machine learning, he combines production-grade engineering with growing ML interests and game/media design studies, making him comfortable at the intersection of product, data and algorithms.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Game and Interactive Media Design, Game and Interactive Media Design at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
high-school, graduation, high-school, graduation at Fenyi Gyula Jesuit Grammar School
BSc, information-technology, software developement, BSc, information-technology, software developement at Pazmany Peter Catholic University
English, German, Hungarian