Summary
Zoltan Szalay is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of focused full-stack experience and a long history of building production web systems across startups and research organizations. He blends front-end expertise (React, Next.js, Typescript, Tailwind) with back-end mastery (Node.js, PostgreSQL, microservices, RabbitMQ) and cloud ops (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes), often owning end-to-end features from UI to deployment. He has led engineering efforts in healthcare, e-commerce, and sports tech—shipping calendar syncs, recommendation engines, and an AI-powered customer service chatbot for an amateur MMA management app. Comfortable as a hands-on tech lead, he has migrated systems to Kubernetes, integrated complex third-party APIs (Athena, Acuity, Shopify), and built custom MVC and admin tooling to surface operational insights. Based in Laguna Niguel, CA, Zoltan combines practical engineering rigor with a knack for pragmatic automation and AI-assisted workflows that reduce manual support effort.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Politehnica University Timisoara
Hungarian, Romanian, English