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. Deep in React/TS and Flutter.
Increasingly deep in AI — pipelines, integrations, fine-tuning.
Career
Building a cross-platform retail investment app with Flutter for Hungary's largest bank.
Worked on a brand new marketing automation tool in a small, tight-knit team.
Worked on web products for the world's largest online poker platform.
Large-scale enterprise product. Deep focus on scalability, performance, accessibility, and observability.
Global digital agency. Worked on Royal Ascot, TOTUM, SteamForged, Flowtech, and more.
Projects
Pupil
AI-powered flashcard hub for deep learning. Generates, organizes, and adapts cards to your knowledge gaps with spaced repetition.
Vigil
TanStack Query for Flutter. Cached, stale-aware data fetching with a mixin-based API — no code generation, no boilerplate, no ceremony.
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
EZZRAMen's Jewellery Design Studio. Recycled stainless steel, fashionable statement pieces. Thousands sold across Hungary, Austria, Slovakia & Romania.
Recent Writing