Adam Molnar
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Budapest, Hungary
Toptal member since June 20, 2015
Adam is an award-winning full-stack engineer, system architect, and leader of highly capable teams. He is an energy bomb with a positive attitude, clear communication, and a growth mindset. Outside work, you'll find him building entrepreneur communities, giving talks on self-development, and creating cutting-edge fintech microventures in the garage. Adam is passionate about finding the magic-fit solution to clients' needs and making the world better.
Portfolio
Experience
- Algorithms - 10 years
- Full-stack - 10 years
- Technical Leadership - 6 years
- Algorithmic Trading - 5 years
- APIs - 5 years
- Quantitative Trading - 4 years
- Blockchain & Cryptocurrency - 4 years
- Quantitative Finance - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
OS X, Angular, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Jupyter, Plotly.js, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), APIs
The most amazing...
...competition I've won is a 24-hour coding tournament where I managed my team to build a paintball robot with its own AI in record time—outperforming all.
Work Experience
Founder, CEO
Red & Green Zrt.
- Founded Red and Green, a small but extremely efficient quantitative proprietary trading studio focusing on the full-stack pipeline of strategy development and quantitative modeling.
- Put an infinite amount of work into strategy and algorithm research and development, working with blazing-fast code and sophisticated trading solutions to create technical and mathematical edges on various markets.
- Led a team of researchers and developers implementing trading robots and engines of all sorts for personal and client use.
Founder, Lead Developer
Think You, Ltd.
- Created a venue booking website for House of Ideas at Prezi, using custom WordPress solutions. Also provided consulting and full-stack design and development.
- Worked with Dr. Phil Zimbardo to create a digital bridge for a world-famous social psychology experiment using web-based solutions: AnguarJS web app, HTML5, CSS3, Laravel PHP.
- Developed an automated green screen solution, which takes a photo, then changes the green background to some fancy magic (JavaScript with Emscripten) then sends it to a custom-made load balancer for printers (using Node.js), and streams it to the web (Laravel + Node + AngularJS + Socket.io). Used by several creative agencies.
- Created PhoneGap and Ionic Framework (AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3) based applications.
- Developed an IoT home management solution with semi-inteligent voice-controlled agent (inspired by Jarvis) using Raspberry PI, Python, Node.js, AngularJS, RESTful APIs, and Bash.
- Did a lot of full-stack development including graphic design for clients.
Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer
STRT Holding Zrt.
- Worked as a CTO co-founder of an angel VC and was responsible for overseeing and evaluating the technical solutions of the companies in which we invested.
- Created internal data warehouses, automation, data acquisition, and processing pipelines with a small in-house team.
- Developed LLM-based agenting workflows, RAG stores, custom chain-of-thoughts, and multishot solutions for advanced knowledge management solutions.
Lead Architect and CEO
Daxire Capital Ltd
- Founded and led a quant studio of 30+ people, which eventually turned into a quantitative hedge fund where we ran various high-frequency trading strategies.
- Architected an entire trading engine, which was able to connect to all sorts of centralized crypto exchanges and blockchain dexes on multiple chains.
- Created optimized codes, which produced 14,400% faster calculations than comparable public solutions.
- Oversaw and participated in the full pipeline of various trading strategy developments. From ideation through implementation, backtesting, forward testing, live system monitoring, and executions.
- Built all sorts of bots focusing on delta-hedged HFT strategies.
Solution Architect
K&H Bank Zrt.
- Oversaw the solution architecture of the bank, coordinated with other architects, and implemented numerous complicated patterns, which were launched with success.
- Architected the mobile banking back end and integrated the solutions into the existing banking architecture.
- Interviewed hundreds of people, led a team of 50+ internationally, and managed to make a successful launch of their new application.
- Created the code for several mission-critical API layers.
Chief Technical Consultant
A VC company in SF
- Worked with numerous founders to help find their best technical needs for their startups that we invested in.
- Architected and built MVPs and related technical solutions from 0 to 1 with various best-fit technologies.
- Oversaw growth hacking principles, resulting in hypergrowth on multiple occasions.
Front-end Developer
Ponddy Education Inc
- Developed an AI-enhanced Chinese language learning application based on proprietary study methodology.
- Built, trained, and led the front-end development team.
- Facilitated the project's technical advancements during the Series A funding round.
JUMP Developer
Prezi
- Developed the process of the Junior Mentoring Program.
- Developed the interview process for the engineer-mentoring candidates. Included technical tests for interviewing.
- Made the application website using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript for site building, also using custom Python hooks.
- Worked with fellow Prezi managers and employees at all levels to introduce this new pivot to the company.
- Did full-stack development on core Prezi projects mainly in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Python.
Web Developer
Iteco Sec Oy.
- Created a highly scalable wish list web service from the ground up, from planning till the box using Java and Play Frameworks for the back-end and custom-made jQuery stack for the front-end.
- Created a mobile stock trading application for a Swedish bank using PhoneGap, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Play Framework, and Java.
- Managed a team during Wishlist development, using Agile methodologies and Scrum.
- Supported the client through planning and retrospective processes, while doing Scrum.
- Created various APIs also on the server side with Java, PHP, and Python and also on the client side with JavaScript, specifically jQuery and AngularJS.
- Developed devops solutions for virtual machine creation, replication, and general management. Also implemented a custom deployment system with Jenkins.
Founder, Consultant, Developer
Netoriginal Kft.
- Created dozens of custom client websites with HTML5, CSS3, and different JavaScript-based solutions.
- Managed a couple of developers while remaining Agile.
- Created lots of Laravel PHP and Play Java based applications of a variety of sizes.
- Developed solutions for sometimes very customized full-stack challenges.
- Created websites and custom modules with WordPress.
Software Engineer
Sense/Net Zrt.
- Contributed to the development of Sense/Net .NET open source portal engine.
- Created custom .NET + jQuery modules for TNG Portal Engine.
- Made a lot of HTML5 + CSS3 + JS site builds for custom client requests.
- Created several web and layout designs for clients requests.
- Made the documentation of custom-made .NET modules.
Software Developer
DoneKey Kft.
- Implemented a web crawler bot in .NET to support continuous data integration into its own data model.
- Developed "latte" RESTful interface for an industrial stock exchange application in Java.
- Created custom devops solutions for high-demand application servers like load balancing, automation, failover, and custom security solutions.
- Created Java Applets for a broad range of mobile and desktop devices.
- Contributed to the development and web solutions of a cutting-edge very long range radio transmitter solution.
- Developed several PIC 8bit micro controller based solutions.
Experience
EvilBox.js
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Pannonia - Veszprém, Hungary
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Flexbox, Handlebars, Liquid, Node.js, jQuery, Firebase Web SDK, Plotly.js, Web3.js, Pandas, NumPy, Socket.IO, React, WebRTC, Vue
Tools
Webpack, Jekyll, Adobe Photoshop, Gulp, Jupyter, ChatGPT, Git, TFS, Adobe Illustrator, Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)
Languages
TypeScript 2, HTML5, Sass, CSS3, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, C#, Java, Pine Script
Frameworks
Angular, Ionic 2, PhoneGap, Bootstrap, Ionic, Ionic 4, Angular 17, AngularJS, Play Framework, .NET, Laravel
Paradigms
UI Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Agile Software Development, Scrum, Requirements Analysis, DevOps, Automation
Platforms
Unix, Meteor, Linux, Firebase, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Blockchain, OS X, Shopify
Storage
MongoDB, NoSQL, MySQL, Memcached
Other
Full-stack, UX Thinking, Chrome Extensions, Cordova, Google Material Design, Pixel Perfect, Front-end, Coding, Technical Leadership, Data Extraction, Website Data Scraping, Leadership, Cryptocurrency, Web3, Trading, Algorithmic Trading, Algorithmic Trading Analysis, Quantitative Finance, Quantitative Trading, Stock Trading, Stock Market Techinical Analysis, Quantitative Modeling, Cryptocurrency Trading, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Algorithms, Automated Trading Software, APIs, Unix/Linux Virtualization, Solution Architecture, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, ChatGPT API, Numba, Culture Development, Growth Hacking, Backtesting Trading Strategies, Software Engineering, Business Information Systems, Economics, Finance APIs, Crypto, Trading Bots, Architecture, Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps), AI Algorithms, Analysis
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