Barna Kovacs
CTO & Co-Founder at Octoscreen
Stegersbach, Burgenland, Austria
Summary
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SeniorBarna Kovacs is a pragmatic CTO and co-founder with 11 years of full-stack engineering experience, currently building Octoscreen, a cloud-based location monitoring platform for real estate and planning intelligence. He combines hands-on Elixir-heavy development with product-minded architecture, having led teams, mentored engineers, and shipped services across RoR, Elixir and JavaScript stacks. An active open-source contributor to Phoenix LiveView, he focuses on code quality, documentation, and improving real-time UX patterns in a widely used framework. Based in Burgenland, Austria, he balances iterative product delivery with continuous learning and developer mentorship. Outside work he’s a father of three, which he cites as a daily reminder to prioritize clarity, efficiency, and long-term thinking.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Hungarian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
phoenix-framework10
phoenix-liveview10
elixir10
testing10
refactor9
refactoring9
html9
documentation8
cloud666
twitter-bootstrap6
messaging6
faye6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
carrierwave6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view
Aug 2019 - Mar 2022
Rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 18 PRs, 3 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Barna's commits primarily focus on maintaining and improving the Phoenix LiveView framework. Their contributions involve fixing typos, refining code by removing redundant calls and simplifying logic, and ensuring code consistency through variable name adjustments. They also made updates to the test suite, including component updates, client proxy modifications, and DOM improvements, and improved documentation. Overall, the user's work demonstrates a focus on code quality, usability, and documentation accuracy within the LiveView framework.
javascriptliveviewphoenix-liveviewexperiencesserver-rendered
preciz/similarity
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
A library for cosine similarity & simhash calculation
Contributions:63 commits, 2 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 years 7 months
pythonstring-comparisonelixirsimilaritycosine-similarity
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