Laszlo Simon
Software Developer CTO at VIZZU
United States
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Top SchoolLaszlo Simon is a seasoned software developer and CTO with 15 years of experience building embedded, backend, and full‑stack systems across safety‑critical and product-focused domains. He leads engineering at Vizzu, where he contributes to open‑source tooling for animated data visualizations and has improved developer experience by automating example and documentation generation for the ipyvizzu project. His background spans C++ network monitoring and Qt UIs, safety‑critical control software, and cross‑platform backend work on Windows and Linux, giving him a strong systems and architecture foundation. Known for pragmatic engineering, he moves between hands‑on implementation and tooling that makes libraries easier to adopt. Educated in mechatronics and information engineering, he blends mechanical systems thinking with software craftsmanship to solve complex integration challenges. Colleagues rely on him for clear architecture, robust testing practices, and practical automation that accelerates developer productivity.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. in Mechanical engineering, Information Engineering, Mechatronics, M.Sc. in Mechanical engineering, Information Engineering, Mechatronics at Budapesti Mûszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem / Technical University of Budapest
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Github Skills (16)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
documentation10
python9
animation9
charts9
jupyter-notebook9
javascript8
jupyter8
computational-geometry6
vector6
qt6
boost6
overlap6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vizzuhq/ipyvizzu
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Build animated charts in Jupyter Notebook and similar environments with a simple Python syntax.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 57 commits, 23 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Laszlo contributed significantly to the ipyvizzu repository, with a focus on enhancing the documentation and example generation processes. They refactored example files, renaming and reorganizing tutorial content. Furthermore, the user developed scripts to generate example documentation from the vizzu-lib repository, generating data files and creating example gallery links in HTML format. The commits indicate a strong understanding of the project's structure, and a focus on presenting the library in an easy to use manner.
pythonchartingjupyter-notebookanimated-chartsplotting
simzer/vizzu-lib
May 2022 - Feb 2024
Library for animated data visualizations and data stories.
Contributions:187 pushes, 88 branches, 13 tags in 1 year 10 months
data-storiesreactdata-analysisanimatedvisualizations
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