Summary
Simon Szalai is a founder and CTO with eight years of hands-on engineering experience building cloud-native, microservices-based systems that prioritize cost-effectiveness and excellent user experience. He has led product lifecycle end-to-end—from user research and prototyping to DevOps/MLOps—and has shipped high-impact projects including a petabyte-scale data platform, a robotic-arm cloud control service with real-time ML inference, and ISO-compliant manufacturing apps. Comfortable across Python, Go, C++, React and major cloud providers, he pairs deep technical breadth with formal business training (MBA from Quantic) to align engineering trade-offs with commercial outcomes. He brings a hardware-to-cloud perspective informed by early lab and embedded work in nanotechnology and robotics, making him adept at bridging physical systems and scalable software.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Quantic School of Business and Technology
High-Impact Entrepreneurship, High-Impact Entrepreneurship at University of California, Berkeley
Deep Reinforcement Learning Nanodegree, Deep Reinforcement Learning Nanodegree at Udacity
Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemistry at University of Szeged
English, Hungarian, Spanish