Daniel Kovacs

Technology Leader

Budaörs, Pest, Hungary

About

Making the world easier for those, who need it.

Experience

  • Engineering Fellow / Strategic Advisor at Gábor Dénes Egyetem Mesterséges Intelligencia Tudásközpont (GDE-MIT)
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Bitwit Zrt. (Budapest, Hungary · Hybrid)
    • Chief Technology Officer
      Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Setting the technology vision and strategy across the organization’s entire portfolio. Leading enterprise architecture and security. Driving innovation and continuous improvement to ensure operational excellence. Overseeing compliance efforts (e.g., NIS2). Advising the board and collaborating with peer CTOs.

    • Software Architect
      Sep 2023 - Apr 2024 · 8 mos

      Enabling all product teams to deliver faster and better quality products by introducing state-of-the-art technologies and tools in Dev, QA and DevOps. Overlooking the SaaS application portfolio from a technical perspective. Facilitating innovation. - Driving Nonfunctional Requirement system and assessments - Maintaining architecture diagrams (C4) as single source of truth - Aiding key growth areas in our portfolio (e.g. AI utilization and payment subsystem) with on-hands advisory - Improving the state of product&information security - Helping CEO to grow the organization the right way - Advising the concern leadership and ownership on technical aspects

  • Tricentis (Full-time · 3 yrs 6 mos)
    • Principal Architect
      Mar 2023 - Aug 2023 · 6 mos

    • Software Architect
      Feb 2022 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Leading multiple teams from technical aspect. Focus areas: - Tosca + Tosca server (product) - Product security, Security Compliance, SAST, SCA - DevOps - CI/CD, quality measures and gates

    • Lead Software Engineer
      Mar 2020 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Leading and helping multiple teams on high priority company initiatives for the flagship product (Tosca), focusing on bottlenecks and reducing tech debt in existing components, and driving technical excellence in new ones.

  • Architect and Agile Consultant at Wizz Air
    Dec 2018 - Mar 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Leader of the agile transition of an IT department with 40+ systems to develop and maintain, Lead developer of a complex desktop app, Architect of the team

  • AP Solution Pty Ltd (Budapest, Hungary)
    • Team Lead
      Jan 2017 - Nov 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

      - Planning and managing project schedules, creating acceptance criteria and deadlines - Helping other members encountering technological difficulties - Providing aid to tech lead and other members in architectural decisions - Communicating between owners/customers and dev team - Increasing team productivity with introducing new tools, technologies and methodologies - Holding meetings, creating workflows, optimising processes - Maintaining Core code and packaging - Implementing business-critical and/or time-critical features (Mobile still in C#/Mono/Xamarin, Web in .NET Core 2.0-2.1 / Angular4-5 + Typescript)

    • Technical Lead
      Feb 2016 - Dec 2016 · 11 mos

      - Introducing cross-platform technology (Xamarin) - Creating guidelines and conventions - Full-Stack development -- Azure Mobile App -- Azure Easy Tables (Entity framework, offline sync, merge from MySQL, JSON) -- Node.JS backend for APIs and Easy Tables -- Shared code in a Core codebase (PCL, C#) -- App-specific code (C# with Xamarin) -- UI & UX (Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android) -- versioning, packaging (VSTS, Git, NuGet) - Helping other members when encountering technological difficulties - Making technological decisions (packages, classes, mapping, merging)

    • Software Developer
      Aug 2015 - Jan 2016 · 6 mos

      Helping the team in adding extra features and quality-enhancing in several mobile and web application, mostly in the web section (Django, HTML5, JS, creating SRS, introducing validation)