Hunor Kovács

Engineering Manager and AI Developer at Chili Piper 🌶

Hungary

About

Software design, architecture, development and delivery. Leading and managing teams, cross-team dependencies and different department stakeholders. Machine Learning, Deep Learning, attention-based transformers, training architecture design and tuning. Async, concurrent, streaming, event-driven systems; Micro-services, API development, performance optimization; Algorithms and information security Scala; Go; Rust; Java; Anthropic Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and the day-by-day evolving other AI tools Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), NoSQL and SQL databases, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, DevOps EU citizen, working on a B2B contract

Experience

  • Chili Piper (Full-time · 3 yrs 10 mos)
    • Engineering Manager
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • Senior Software Engineer at Hiya Inc.
    Dec 2019 - Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
    Jun 2018 - Jun 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Software Engineer at Financial Times
    Nov 2011 - May 2018 · 6 yrs 7 mos

  • Senior Software Engineer at iQuest Group
    Nov 2011 - May 2018 · 6 yrs 7 mos