László Monda

Szeged, Hungary

Member since September 1, 2013

László is a full stack developer experienced in a wide range of languages and frameworks. He boasts a system-wide understanding and comfortably moves across the various layers of the stack.

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Portfolio

Ultimate Gadget Laboratories Kft.
AVR8 MCU programming in C, LUFA, KiCad, SPI, UART, I2C, Arduino, Bus Pirate
TuneWiki Inc.
PHP, MySQL, Memcached, Beanstalkd, Solr, AWS, cURL
Wondeer Ltd.
Mono, AWS (EC2 and S3), jQuery, Adobe Flash (ActionScript), Linode

Experience

Linux, 14 years
Bash, 12 years
Python, 10 years
PHP, 8 years
JavaScript, 8 years
MySQL, 7 years
jQuery, 7 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, Sublime Text, Git

The most amazing...

...thing I've created is a site for recording songs from internet radio stations based on the wish lists of users looking to play back the songs on the site.

Employment

Chief Developer, Founder, CEO
2012 - PRESENT
Ultimate Gadget Laboratories Kft.
- Created Ultimate Hacking Keyboard, a high-end keyboard designed for professionals.
- Came up with the concept and refined it over a number of iterations.
- Designed the circuit diagram and printed circuit board and soldered the prototypes.
- Wrote the firmware of the microcontrollers and created the host-side configuration application.
- Negotiated with hundreds of companies, mostly manufacturers and subcontractors.
Technologies: AVR8 MCU programming in C, LUFA, KiCad, SPI, UART, I2C, Arduino, Bus Pirate
Back-end Developer
2007 - 2013
TuneWiki Inc.
- Designed, developed, maintained, and operated a critical back-end component.
- Became part of the back-end development team, implementing numerous refactoring efforts and improvements to the core API.
- Created frameworks for self-documenting web service parameters and making web services able to dump data transactions, greatly easing debugging.
- Became part of the lyric quality team, addressing QA needs and building back-end tools to facilitate QA work.
Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Memcached, Beanstalkd, Solr, AWS, cURL
Co-Founder, Systems Architect, Development Lead
2007 - 2009
Wondeer Ltd.
- Designed a cutting-edge Web 2.0 music site and platform on top of Mono and AWS.
- Coordinated the work of developers.
- Administered servers, implemented a significant part of the system, and optimized site performance on both the client and server-side.
Technologies: Mono, AWS (EC2 and S3), jQuery, Adobe Flash (ActionScript), Linode
Web Developer
2006 - 2007
Ritek Zrt.
- Extended the core of a robust e-Government system with state-of-the-art DHTML features utilizing PHP, JavaScript, and AJAX technologies.
- Refactored some central parts of the core to make it more manageable and capable of incorporating new features.
Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, PostgreSQL, SVN

Experience

GitHub projects (Development)
https://github.com/mondalaci
My free and open source projects on GitHub.
Pidio (Development)
https://github.com/mondalaci/pidio
A Raspberry Pi-based wifi radio player featuring a blind-friendly pushbutton user interface.
dxf2svg2kicad (Development)
http://mondalaci.github.io/dxf2svg2kicad/
A DXF to SVG to KICAD_PCB converter web app that runs purely on the client side.
Ultimate Commander (Development)
https://github.com/mondalaci/ultimate-commander
Ultimate Commander is a Gtk#-based two-pane file manager developed with a special focus on usability.
Landing Page Design: Building the Ultimate Landing Page (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/designers/web/a-landing-page-design-guide
The best landing pages increase conversions and help brands sell more. But what makes great landing page design? Read and uncover valuable insights for any business looking for a world-class landing page.
From the Ground Up: How I Built the Developer's Dream Keyboard (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/embedded/from-the-ground-up-how-i-built-the-developers-dream-keybooard
Going from a software background, knowing nothing about electronics, to designing and building a powerful, marketable hardware device, is an interesting and fascinating experience. In this article, I'll describe the design of how this electronic masterpiece works.

Skills

Languages
JavaScript, PHP, Python, Bash, C, Java, C#
Frameworks
Bootstrap, AngularJS, Slim
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, LibC
Tools
Sublime Text, Git, Bower, Make, PhpStorm
Platforms
Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
MySQL, Memcached, SQLite

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
2001 - 2007
University of Szeged - Szeged