Balazs Szabo is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 24 years of experience building scalable web and infrastructure systems, currently at Meta and running his own boutique agency, dLux Services. He began as a startup entrepreneur in Hungary, pioneering early websocket-like chat servers and a high-performance Perl web framework, then spent 13 years at Google shipping features like Gmail nested labels and rewrites for Google Tasks. His language palette spans C++, Java, Python and Dart, and he expanded into crypto while at Gemini, bringing practical experience with emerging distributed technologies. Balazs combines startup pragmatism with enterprise-scale engineering discipline gained at Google, Tubi, and Gemini, and he focuses on enabling products with reliable, high-performance backends. Based in Clearwater, Florida, he pairs hands-on coding with company-building, aiming to make high-quality software services accessible to teams of any size.
24 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Master of Science (MS) at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
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