Jonatan Fekete

Bonboarding is a tool designed to help digital products offer better user onboarding experiences by enabling them to add in-app product tours, highlight elements, and add popups that seamlessly match their design. All this is in a no-code solution that functions as a layer on top of the web app.

There were many challenges during this project, such as creating a Chrome extension integrating with any underlying app that might use various front-end technologies.

As a CTO and lead developer, I worked in a Barcelona-based startup, Beam HR. Our application is used by the employees of various retails stores in Spain to view their schedules, request holidays and changes, notify their managers of sick leaves or chat with coworkers.

The application communicates with different back-end APIs and uses technologies such as notifications, GPS, or local database.

As a developer, I worked on both the back- and front-end side of the project, while simultaneously focusing on optimization, easy-to-use UI interfaces, error-proof infrastructure, and writing clean code.

Recruitio is a digital talent sourcing tool that improves the process of finding the best candidates for your job openings.

As a technical co-founder, I built the whole system from scratch, made all initial technological and architectural decisions, chose the back-end and front-end technologies, and implemented the system through an agile development process. The system was integrated with various external services, and I implemented an assortment of features such as Elasticsearch or Word-to-PDF conversion.

After our user base started increasing, I ensured that the system could scale and function smoothly while always protecting sensitive client data. I introduced continuous integration, efficient development, and deployment processes.

I worked with a team at Elements Interactive to build a location-tracking application to prevent young people from using their phones while riding.

I developed the admin interface and the REST API that served hundreds of users simultaneously at peak periods. I also implemented the testing and access management with multi-level user roles.

As part of Isobar, I worked on a project for one of Denmark's largest grocery stores. The web app consisted of hundreds of meal recipes and let users mix and match them to plan ahead for their week, generating a consolidated shopping list at the end.

Although the project was part of a WordPress environment, I developed many custom functionalities in PHP and JavaScript.

I believe that it's never too late to learn to code, and in the previous years, I organized many free web and PHP introduction courses—helping more than a hundred people in total.

Besides that, I mentored several beginners and helped them get their first developer jobs. I also organized some small hackathons to motivate them and show how much can be achieved within just a weekend.

I created a web app at the dawn of HTML5 Canvas so I had to write custom functionalities in order for users to be able to drag and drop elements, connect them, edit properties, and format.

I used JavaScript, jQuery, and many libraries to achieve smooth user experiences while the back-end ran on PHP with MySQL.