Peter Karakas is a founder-turned-advisor and technical leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling engineering teams, products, and companies from zero-to-one to multi-million-user platforms. He combines hands-on backend expertise in Node.js, Go, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch and MongoDB with a strong product mindset and proven M&A experience, including founding, growing, and exiting a company. As CTO he built microservice infrastructure capable of handling terabytes of data and led post-acquisition integrations and full due diligence processes. He excels at optimizing SDLC, improving deployment cadence, and growing technical leadership across teams of up to 30 engineers. Based in Debrecen, Hungary, he now advises companies on tech due diligence, team integration and performance metrics—bringing both operator grit and strategic insight. A lesser-known strength is his early habit of shipping product-focused side projects (including an ebook) that sharpened his product and marketing instincts.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science (MSc) Information Technology, Master of Computer Science (MSc) Information Technology at University of Debrecen
National Register Certificate Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, National Register Certificate Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Mechwart Andras High School
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