Balazs 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
React-based frontend for the Plone Content Management System
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:13 reviews, 20 commits, 26 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.
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