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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Balazs Otakomaiya

b.o. — MMXXVI

01

Writing

I hate what AI did to software engineering

Building Durable LLM Memory

Stop working from home

02

Career

2026 – Now

VP, Lead Software Engineer

Recently joined J.P. Morgan's eTrading FX Services team as a VP, Lead Software Engineer.

eTradingFX ServicesSoftware Engineering
2023 – 2026

Senior Software Engineer

Building a cross-platform retail investment app with Flutter for Hungary's largest bank.

FlutterCross-platformFintech
2022 – 2023

Frontend Engineer

Worked on a brand new marketing automation tool in a small, tight-knit team.

ReactTypeScriptMarketing Automation
2021 – 2022

Software Engineer

Worked on web products for the world's largest online poker platform.

ReactGamingWeb
2020 – 2021

Software Engineer

Large-scale enterprise product. Deep focus on scalability, performance, accessibility, and observability.

ReactA/B TestingPerformance
2018 – 2020

Software Engineer

Global digital agency. Worked on Royal Ascot, TOTUM, SteamForged, Flowtech, and more.

ReactNext.jsVarious Clients
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Projects

UnannouncedSoon
Althar

Beautiful project orchestration environment (IDE) for software engineering with AI agents. Bring your own subscription. Open source.

AIAgentsDesktop
BuildingOSS
Pupil

AI-powered flashcard hub for deep learning. Generates, organizes, and adapts cards to your knowledge gaps with spaced repetition.

RustReactTauriAI
ShippedOSS
Sigil

Gorgeous avatars. Deterministic, multi-style, zero-dependency initial-based avatar generation library.

TypeScriptReact
Shipped
Octo

Consumer marketplace app for booking home services like cleaning, built with provider onboarding, payments, and marketplace operations end-to-end.

FlutterStripe ConnectLaravel
ShippedToy
iOS Stopwatch Imitation

Playground React project replicating the native iOS stopwatch interaction and visual behavior.

ReactTypeScript
ShippedToy
Custom Vector (C++)

Playground implementation of a custom C++ vector with manual memory management, growth strategy, and iterator-style access.

C++
ShippedToy
CSV Parser (C++)

Playground C++ CSV parser focused on correctness and lightweight parsing for structured tabular input.

C++
04

Venture

EZZRA

Men's Jewellery Design Studio. Recycled stainless steel, fashionable statement pieces. Thousands sold across Hungary, Austria, Slovakia & Romania.