Bálint Magyar is a Principal Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with a decade of engineering experience and a rare blend of systems, frontend and Rust expertise. He has built safety-critical flight control UIs and APIs for autonomous drones, led the software stack for TU Delft’s RoboCup team (authoring an open-source Rust-based AI/control framework), and contributed to the popular Joplin note-taking app across desktop and mobile. Equally at home in product-facing UI work and low-level systems, he has led teams, run code reviews, and organized Rust workshops to raise engineering standards. Currently pursuing nanobiology studies at TU Delft, he applies software and bioinformatics skills to research on nitrogen-fixing endosymbionts with potential agricultural impact. That cross-disciplinary focus makes him effective at translating complex scientific problems into usable software tools that accelerate research and deployment.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Nanobiology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Nanobiology at Delft University of Technology
Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:10 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Bálint primarily contributed to the Joplin note-taking application across both desktop and mobile platforms. Their work included fixing bugs related to plugin updates, improving mermaid diagram rendering in the desktop editor, and adding a "sync only on Wi-Fi" option to the mobile app. They also addressed panel overflow issues within the desktop application's resizable layout, demonstrating a focus on user interface and application functionality.
DD-IDDE - Discourse-Driven Integrated Dialog Development Environment.
Contributions:75 commits, 52 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
discoursedialogintegratedmodularityuser-guide
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