Bence Szabó
Senior Frontend Engineer at WorldQuant
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolBence Szabó is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Budapest with a decade of experience building user-focused web applications and leading frontend teams. He has guided end-to-end frontend delivery at companies from startups to enterprise—owning Hiya’s global frontend, architecting Hiya Connect, and currently shaping frontend systems at WorldQuant. Comfortable across the full stack, he founded and implemented Splisten using vanilla JS, Spring Boot, and AWS, and earlier worked on cloud-native Java services at GE Healthcare. An active contributor to the finnhvman/matter project, he builds and tests pixel-accurate Material Design components and has improved visual testing through region detection and color histogram analysis. Trained as a mechatronics engineer, he brings a systems-minded approach to UI engineering and a penchant for clean, testable frontends.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mechatronics Engineering, excellent, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mechatronics Engineering, excellent at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Hungarian, English, German
Github Skills (9)
html10
jes10
css10
material-design10
javascript10
jasmine10
jestjs10
ui-components10
testing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
finnhvman/matter
Dec 2018 - Jan 2022
Material Design Components in Pure CSS. Materializing HTML at just one class per component 🍰
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 73 commits, 70 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Bence primarily contributed to the front-end development of Material Design components. Their work focused on setting up a testing framework and implementing UI components, specifically buttons. They wrote detailed tests that verify the visual correctness of the components in various states, including hover, focus, active, and disabled states. Further contributions improved the text rendering within the components through region detection and color histogram analysis in the testing infrastructure, as well as adding additional components such as text and outlined text fields.
material-componentsmaterialcssmaterial-design-componentspure-css
finnhvman/messaround
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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