Gabor Biro

Tempcon Instrumentation Ltd. is a UK-based company that manufactures environmental sensors.

One of their products was a handheld industrial digital thermometer, and they asked me to build a companion app for it. The app connected to the thermometer via BLE Bluetooth, where I implemented the BLE client, allowing users to record temperature measurements for things like cooked food or water in a treatment facility and send email reports.

The app ended up being quite complex, with pre-defined measurement profiles and multiple parallel ongoing measurement projects being supported.

Vemely is a social media content creator app initially built for iOS. The user uploads videos, and the app embeds subtitles into them, yet subtitles are transcribed in the back end, not by the app.

My responsibility was to build the Android app and release it to the Play Store. Also, I worked on my own.

I implemented the video editing with FFmpeg. The user can have multiple ongoing projects, view their status, edit them, and publish them directly from the app to various social media platforms, such as Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter.

The app we built allows users to view and manage their contacts, deals, tasks, notes, fully custom objects as well as manage relationships between them, like assign tasks to contacts, and manage deals associated with companies.

My responsibilities were to design, implement and maintain the architecture, set the direction for the rest of the team and support the project post-release. I worked as part of a team of 2-3.

We had to work with a massively complex API that was not intended to be used by mobile clients, but we pulled it off and created something that worked reliably and smoothly, and the client was happy.

Visit https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ontraport.android to see the app.

Collaborated with a US investment bank as an Android app developer for two and a half years.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Implementation of features based on design specifications and integration of 3rd-party software/API and liaison with vendors
• Ticket grooming and code review of team members' contributions
• Participation in discussions regarding platform and architecture upgrades
• On-call support and release monitoring
• Conducting interviews and facilitating the onboarding process for new team members

ACHIEVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS
• Scanning and depositing paychecks in the app
• Customer support chat integration
• Contributing to a state-of-the-art codebase, using a wide variety of tools, technologies, and paradigms while maintaining code quality via a comprehensive, multilayered testing strategy

COLLABORATION AND LEADERSHIP
I continually received good feedback for jumping in and helping in tight situations/deadlines/hotfixes. As the primary investigator, I handled a severe incident, kept stakeholders up to date, sought out the right people in the many back-end teams for information, implemented the fix, prepared post-mortem documentation, and participated in the post-mortem meetings. I also managed on-call rotations.