Balazs Saros

Senior Frontend Engineer

Budapest, Hungary
[email protected]
linkedin.com/in/bsaros
github.com/balzss

Professional Summary

Senior Frontend Engineer with 8+ years of experience, specializing in React and TypeScript for the past 5 years, with expertise in accessibility (a11y). Some background in full-stack development with Node.js. Proficient in Next.js, unit and integration testing. Passionate about building tools, designing CI/CD pipelines, improving developer workflows, and contributing to open-source projects.

Work Experience

Sr. Frontend Engineer

May 2023 - Present
Instructure
  • Working on the InstUI React component library with heavy focus on accessibility (WCAG)
  • Planned and helped the migration of legacy karma unit tests to vitest
  • Introduced component (integration) testing with cypress
  • Modernized the release pipeline
  • Mentoring and onboarding interns, providing guidance on best practices, code reviews, and collaboration

Frontend Developer

Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
INSPYRE Informatics
  • Worked on client projects with React and TypeScript

Frontend Engineer

Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
IBM Budapest Lab
  • Worked on Carbon Design System
  • Worked on Cloud Onboarding, improving the onboarding workflow, developing custom middlewares to connect with company APIs

Frontend Developer

Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
ChemAxon
  • Worked on an administrative product for customers, connecting data from other company services
  • Helped creating a greenfield project developing React extensions for Tableau

Jr. Software Developer

Oct 2017 - Jul 2018
iMind.eu

    Software Developer Intern

    Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
    Mortoff IT Consulting and Services

      Skills

      Languages:
      JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
      Frameworks:
      React, Next.js, Material UI, Tailwind CSS, Styled Components
      Testing:
      Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Vitest, Chromatic
      Tools:
      Git, Webpack, Vite, Babel, GitHub Actions, Docker

      Education

      BSc, Computer Engineering

      Budapest University of Technology and Economics