Nice to meet you, I'm Balazs
Otakomaiya
Taste × engineering × business — I work at the intersection. 8 years of shipping: Booking.com, Typeform, OTP Bank, J.P. Morgan. Deep in React/TS and Flutter.
Increasingly deep in AI — pipelines, integrations, fine-tuning.
Nice to meet you, I'm Balazs
Otakomaiya
Taste × engineering × business — I work at the
intersection. 8 years of shipping: Booking.com,
Typeform, OTP Bank, J.P. Morgan. Deep in React/TS and Flutter.
Increasingly deep in AI — pipelines, integrations, fine-tuning.
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b.o. — MMXXVI
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Career
VP, Lead Software Engineer
Recently joined J.P. Morgan's eTrading FX Services team as a VP, Lead Software Engineer.
Senior Software Engineer
Building a cross-platform retail investment app with Flutter for Hungary's largest bank.
Frontend Engineer
Worked on a brand new marketing automation tool in a small, tight-knit team.
Software Engineer
Worked on web products for the world's largest online poker platform.
Software Engineer
Large-scale enterprise product. Deep focus on scalability, performance, accessibility, and observability.
Software Engineer
Global digital agency. Worked on Royal Ascot, TOTUM, SteamForged, Flowtech, and more.
Projects
Beautiful project orchestration environment (IDE) for software engineering with AI agents. Bring your own subscription. Open source.
AI-powered flashcard hub for deep learning. Generates, organizes, and adapts cards to your knowledge gaps with spaced repetition.
Gorgeous avatars. Deterministic, multi-style, zero-dependency initial-based avatar generation library.
Consumer marketplace app for booking home services like cleaning, built with provider onboarding, payments, and marketplace operations end-to-end.
Playground React project replicating the native iOS stopwatch interaction and visual behavior.
Playground implementation of a custom C++ vector with manual memory management, growth strategy, and iterator-style access.
Playground C++ CSV parser focused on correctness and lightweight parsing for structured tabular input.
Venture
Men's Jewellery Design Studio. Recycled stainless steel, fashionable statement pieces. Thousands sold across Hungary, Austria, Slovakia & Romania.