Chief Software Engineer · Architect · Technical Lead

Tamás
Gere

23 years building systems that scale. I architect complex backends, lead engineering teams, and bring hands-on AI implementation to organisations that need both technical depth and leadership.

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Tamás Gere
$150B

Annual payments volume at current engagement

23+

Years of continuous web development experience

244%

Revenue growth at OneInc over 3 years

1M+

Websites and blogs served at peak scale

Expertise

Current focus

AI implementation

Leading the practical adoption of AI in engineering workflows — not as a spectator but as an implementer. Coding assistance tooling, RAG pipeline design, and automated code review systems deployed in production.

RAG pipelinesCoding assistanceAutomated reviewLLM integration

Architecture & technical leadership

High-level design choices, engineering standards, and solution architecting at product and platform level. Led technical direction across fintech, telecom, ecommerce, and media — from greenfield to legacy migration.

System designAPI designDistributed systemsTechnical standards

Engineering management

Team building, mentoring, and cross-functional coordination. Strong Agile/Scrum practitioner since early adoption. Guiding business decisions from a technical perspective — performance, reliability, scalability, security.

Team leadershipAgile / ScrumMentoringStakeholder alignment

Backend & systems engineering

High-traffic distributed systems, REST and SOAP API design, headless CMS platforms, streaming backends, payment infrastructure, and complex third-party integrations. Built and scaled across 9 roles over two decades.

Backend architectureHigh-traffic systemsIntegrationsSecurity & GDPR

Experience

Jul 2022
Present

3+ years

Chief Software Engineer

EPAM Systems · OneInc

Embedded with OneInc — a fintech specialising in digital payment solutions for the insurance industry — as chief software engineer via EPAM. Involved in management, product, and engineering-level decision making, solution architecting, coordination of engineering teams, and solving complex technical challenges. OneInc processes more than $150B in annual payments volume, with revenue exceeding $100M and 244% growth over the past 3 years.

Jul 2021
Jul 2022

1 year

Backend Lead

Trendency Zrt

Led the backend of a modern, modular, multi-portal headless CMS and video streaming platform built on Symfony 6, designed to serve 12–14 high-traffic websites. Multiple frontend implementations including Angular 13 administration UI.

Nov 2019
Jul 2021

1 yr 9 mo

Solo Software Engineer

DIGI KFT Return

Rejoined DIGI under the marketing department. Built a brand-new public portal on Drupal 9, transferred invitel.hu to Symfony 5, integrated Mautic 3 for marketing automation, and led web security and GDPR compliance work across public-facing properties.

Jan 2019
Nov 2019

10 months

Contract Software Engineer

Online Solutions Group · Germany

Symfony-based web performance analytics platform aggregating data from Google services, Amazon, Facebook, and others. Built new modules including a security check service and Google My Business API integration. Worked T&M as an independent contractor.

Feb 2017
Dec 2018

1 yr 10 mo

Lead Software Engineer

Virgo Systems

Led the agile team technically across two flagship projects: joautok.hu — a Node.js/Vue.js REST API and isomorphic frontend delivered in four months to a tight deadline; and Extreme Digital, Hungary's highest-revenue ecommerce platform. Full Scrum adoption throughout.

Aug 2009
Jan 2017

7+ years

Lead Software Engineer

DIGI KFT

Technical leader of the in-house development team for Hungary's leading triple-play telecom (internet, TV, phone). Built and maintained the customer portal, subscription database, access control systems, public CMS, streaming backend, mobile frontend (DIGI Online), and a suite of back-office tools including call centre, stock, contract, HR, and fleet tracking systems.

2003
2009

6 years

Earlier roles

Howdy Group · Jasmin Media / Docler Holding · Amice KFT

Chief and lead engineer across social networking, freemail, media, and ERP platforms. Rebuilt extra.hu into a market-leading freeweb platform serving 1M+ hosted sites and blogs. Built a 10-country localised social network. Core developer on ExtWork, a full web-based ERP alternative to SAP and Oracle, built on early Drupal.

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Chief Software Engineer Howdy Group Jul 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr 2 mo

Built a localised social networking platform with 10+ country versions worldwide, each adapted to local culture and language. Technically successful — arrived late to market as Facebook had already saturated globally.

Lead Software Engineer Jasmin Media Group (now Docler Holding) Nov 2005 – Jul 2008 · 2 yrs 9 mo

Rebuilt extra.hu — Hungary's first and most popular freeweb and freemail brand — into a market-leading platform. Built a blogging engine on WordPress at scale. At peak, served over 1 million hosted websites, blogs, and email accounts.

Core Software Engineer Amice KFT May 2003 – Oct 2005 · 2 yrs 6 mo

Core developer on ExtWork, a complete web-based ERP product targeting mid-size companies as a cost-effective alternative to SAP and Oracle. Built on early Drupal (v4.2). Covered HR, stock, contracts, and resource planning modules.

Stack

PHP / Symfony MySQL Elasticsearch Docker Kubernetes AWS Linux GitLab CI REST / SOAP Node.js Drupal Vue.js

Extensive background across many additional languages, frameworks, platforms, and tools accumulated over 23 years — including further NoSQL databases, CMS platforms, frontend frameworks, and third-party integrations across fintech, telecom, ecommerce, and media verticals.

Education

Engineering Management BSc

Óbuda University

Thesis: Agile Management and the Scrum framework in practice

2004 – 2008

Software Developer

Controll Training KFT

OKJ 54464104 — .NET, Delphi, Visual Basic

2002 – 2004

Contact

Let's work
together.

Open to senior engineering leadership, architecture, and CTO/VP roles globally. Remote-friendly.

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