Dávid Szabó
Lead Software Engineer at Suxess Logistic
Kecskemét, Hungary
Summary
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RockstarDávid Szabó is a Lead Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications, currently leading engineering at Suxess Logistic from Kecskemét, Hungary. He specializes in Node.js, TypeScript, React and the WordPress ecosystem, pairing front-end polish with solid back-end skills (MariaDB/MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ) and observability via Prometheus. A pragmatic engineer and former CTO for a US marketing agency, he has deep experience integrating CRMs, payment platforms and marketing automation—skills that show up in both product work and automation tooling. Dávid is also an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like WordPress Calypso and Gutenberg, where he improved editor UX, accessibility, and testing, and to tools such as Piskel and the Grav Admin plugin. While not looking for new roles, he enjoys technical discussions and continuous learning, reflected in a GitHub focus on JavaScript/TypeScript and front-end UX refinements.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (30)
accessibility10
javascript10
admin10
canvas10
css10
wordpress10
pixel-art10
php10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
web-developer10
html10
frontend10
twig10
react10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:430 reviews, 172 commits, 218 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Dávid primarily focused on enhancing the user experience of the WordPress Gutenberg editor. They implemented features such as alerts for unsaved changes in the Site Editor, refactored components to support both Post and Site editors, and transitioned components to functional components. The user also made styling and functionality improvements to the Site Title block and added new features related to comments and block-based layouts. The user also added image size options to the Media & Text block.
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Automattic/wp-calypso
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 44 commits, 83 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Dávid primarily contributed to the editing toolkit and site editor components within the WordPress.com Calypso project. Their work involved fixing IE11 syntax errors, updating newspack blocks, and improving accessibility by using descriptions for screen readers in page layout selectors. The user also implemented e2e tests for the site editor and made multiple tracking-related changes, ensuring events are tracked correctly in various scenarios.
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