GK.Gergely Kovács
02Work history

Ten years.
Five roles.
One throughline.

From a Magento webshop with 130,000 products, through a Mechatronics BSc and a co-founded AI traffic-optimisation startup, into international development work with WHO and UNICEF — and now architecting the contract-intelligence platform that governmental and defence clients run their post-execution obligations on.

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Timeline

2015 — Present
Jan 2023 — Present
Budapest · Remote
Governmental, international & defence-sector clients

Senior Engineer — Architecture & Platform

Affinitext

Contract-intelligence platform that governmental, defence and infrastructure clients run their post-execution obligations on — multi-billion-dollar programs where a missed clause-driven deadline can trigger eight-figure liquidated damages. Work spans the hardest subsystems: task orchestration, identity & SSO, document linking and clause graphs, cloud and network infrastructure on GCP, security review, and reliability for long-running data pipelines.

  • 01Platform architecture: sole author of the production Celery framework (+10,787 LOC, 42 files, 50+ legacy jobs ported, multi-tenant context restoration). Runtime owner two years post-launch.
  • 02Full-stack rewrite of the core checkout-status workflow end-to-end — 10 months, 8 versions, Python / SQLObject + ExtJS + Angular. Touches every customer transaction.
  • 03Production incident command: recurring commander for DB-lock and stuck-job classes. Hot-fixed a production lock-up caused by an unguarded dblink call; eliminated a lock-contention class serialising every admin operation behind concurrent check-ins on multi-thousand-book libraries.
  • 04Security research: four pre-disclosure vulnerability reports in 30 days (subdomain takeover, CSRF/PRNG, SMS-MFA bypass + ATO chain, leaked-credential audit) — each in executive register with ISO 27001 framing and a remediation plan.
  • 05De-facto owner of CI/CD orchestration, the mypy type-safety pipeline and the compliance notification system. Authored a Claude Code slash-command suite in production team use; built an MCP-driven evidence pipeline; analysed a 1,000-MR review corpus for a pre-merge tooling proposal.
  • 06Compliance: implemented technical controls supporting GDPR, CCPA, ePrivacy and ISO 27001 across platform domains. Authored the regulatory-comparison matrix for cookie-consent; chose strictest-GDPR posture over geo-fencing.
  • 07Footprint: 200 MRs at 61.5% merge rate · 35 teammate MRs reviewed · 17+ initiative branches owned end-to-end · 138 tickets shipped across seven subsystem themes · top-4 contributor (710+ commits) in a 10+ person team.
Oct 2021 — Dec 2022
Budapest
WHO & UNICEF stakeholder work · 1 yr 3 mos

Back End Developer

Pulilab

Delivered data-intensive Python systems for international development organisations — partnering directly with WHO and UNICEF project stakeholders on requirements, delivery and iteration.

  • 01Built a Python data-management platform for WHO and maintained UNICEF frontend platform reliability for a global user base. Delivered a 1.5M-word content-management system end-to-end.
  • 02Designed a data-enrichment pipeline for 20,000+ medical clinics via Scrapy — automated extraction of images, contact data and entity information at scale.
  • 03Architected a 100,000+ datapoint analytics system with multi-level aggregation (city / country / global), geolocation processing and statistical outlier detection.
  • 04Developed an OpenAI-powered content-strategy system with automated A/B testing — pre-ChatGPT (2021–22), part of an AI early-adopter arc going back to 2018.
  • 05Owned the deployment lifecycle: Docker containerisation, CI/CD optimisation, full-stack across Django REST APIs / PostgreSQL and Nuxt.js / Vue.js, with data-science reporting in Jupyter / Pandas / NumPy / Matplotlib.
Feb 2019 — Oct 2021
Budapest
12+ client projects · concurrent with Venturi founder track

Software Engineer — Freelance

Self-Employed

Delivered client projects end-to-end — requirements, architecture, development, deployment, ongoing optimisation — across Python, Django, Vue.js and WordPress ecosystems.

  • 01Integrated OpenAI into a live business system, implementing AI-powered automation for production workflows.
  • 02Built a cross-platform Progressive Web App for a newspaper with built-in subscription management and payment processing — fully installable on iOS and Android via WordPress REST API integration.
  • 03Delivered eCommerce solutions including a 360-degree product-photo gallery plugin, universal multi-carrier shipping integration (DPD, MPL, GLS, Gebruder Weiss) and complete checkout-flow redesigns.
Sep 2018 — Oct 2021
Debrecen
AI-driven urban traffic optimisation · 3 yrs 2 mos

Co-Founder & CEO

Venturi Systems

Co-founded and led an AI-powered city-traffic-optimisation startup from concept to production deployment — owning business development, product strategy, technical architecture and external team management.

  • 01Secured 2 B2G contracts through 30+ meetings with municipal decision-makers across three cities — personally managing contract negotiation, relationship development and executive-register stakeholder communication.
  • 02Delivered measurable city-infrastructure impact: 16 intersections optimised and deployed across three municipalities. Partnerships across Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Hong Kong.
  • 03Designed the system architecture end-to-end: distributed simulation processing 3M+ data points across 140 simulated years of traffic on Google Cloud 96-core instances with Python multithreading.
  • 04Applied ML to accelerate signal optimisation (Green Wave) with matrix-based safety intergreen calculations, dockerised service management and CI/CD pipelines.
  • 05Managed an external design team at EPAM as Product Owner, plus a 2-person engineering team. Dual technical / business ownership of a CTO and CEO simultaneously.
Nov 2015 — Feb 2019
Debrecen, Hajdú-Bihar
Large-scale eCommerce · 3 yrs 4 mos

Magento Developer

UNDEFASA

Development and maintenance of a Magento-based webshop with 130,000+ products — multi-device universal frontend, PHP plugin development and significant performance work.

  • 01Built an automated data-cleaning system for 130,000 products and a universal multi-carrier shipping integration (DPD, MPL, GLS, Gebruder Weiss).
  • 02SEO speed-improvement system, landing-page optimisation, complete checkout-page rework and cart refactor for better UX.

Education

2015 — 2019
2015 — 2019
Debrecen

Mechatronics, Robotics & Automation Engineering

University of Debrecen · Faculty of Engineering

Bachelor's degree with specialisation in automation and system control — the engineering substrate that informs how I think about distributed systems, control loops and reliability today.