Balazs Ree
Founder at VIALab AI
Budapest, Central Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolBalazs Ree is a founder and Principal JavaScript Engineer with 20 years of experience building scalable web and cloud-native systems, currently leading VIALab AI and Greenfinity. He is a React/Rescript specialist who pairs hands-on front-end craftsmanship—illustrated by contributions to the Plone Volto React CMS—with full-stack Node.js and Python expertise and AWS/Kubernetes deployments. As a former principal engineer and front-end tech lead in both European and Silicon Valley teams, he excels at taking new products from prototype to production and mentoring junior engineers. His work spans content management, IoT and applied deep learning, and he brings a practical interest in functional languages beyond his ReScript practice. Based in Budapest, he balances technical leadership with entrepreneurial grit and eclectic outside interests that inform a curious, systems-oriented approach to engineering.
20 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD studies in Computer Science, PhD studies in Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
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Github Skills (16)
volta10
uid10
javascript10
plone10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
css9
jtest8
jes8
redux8
jestjs8
sass6
media-queries6
firebase6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
plone/volto
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
React-based frontend for the Plone Content Management System
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 20 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Balazs primarily contributed to the front-end of the Plone Volto project, focusing on improving the user interface and fixing bugs. Their work included addressing drag-and-drop list placeholder issues, preventing ghost content loading, and resolving issues with the history page and autocomplete widgets. Additionally, the user implemented changes to the object browser, ensuring image searches returned only images, and fixed a logout redirection issue, enhancing the overall user experience.
content-management-systemfrontendplonereactvolto
karlproject/karl
Jun 2009 - Nov 2014
Knowledge And Resource Locator
Contributions:886 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 5 years 6 months
javalocatorknowledge
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