Attila Bagossy, PhD

Software engineer with 10 years of experience and a hint of academia and founder ownership.

Open to remote full-time and contract Senior/Staff Backend and AI Product Engineering roles.

Experience

2024–

Co-Founder

Sustainabot

We build software for green-building certifiers to make their work less frustrating.

As the technical co-founder, I’m a one-person engineering team, owning our entire stack.

  • Built an elastic, self-hosted document processing pipeline based on Docling and RunPod that analyzes thousands of documents each day.
  • Crucial for a product: it’s loved by certifiers across Europe, working at firms of all sizes. As per internal measurements, it can eliminate 80% of the boring work.
2022–2024

Senior Software Engineer

Qogita

As an engineer on the seller side, my focus was to streamline the seller experience, from catalog ingestion to sales management.

  • Championed RFCs that moved engineering (20-30 folks) toward progressive delivery. We introduced feature flags, shadowing, and delivery diagrams.
  • Architected a new solution for calling seller order placement APIs, making it resilient and maintainable with a huge leap in DX.
  • Mentored colleagues through knowledge sharing sessions and pair programming.
2020–2022

Software Engineer

Perfinal

I worked on a core banking platform (CBP) for neo-banks and central banks.

  • Led the migration of the platform from JS to Java, which enabled us to ship on time.
2019

Software Engineer

NLV8

Developed various blockchain-based financial applications in JS/TS.

2016–2018

Junior Software Engineer (started as Intern)

EPAM

Learned the ins and outs of Java/Spring from the best while working on Hotels.com.

Education

2019–2024

Computer Science, PhD

University of Debrecen

I studied the interplay between reversibility paradigms and models of computation.

My thesis, titled Reversible Reaction Systems, explores backward deterministic and causal-consistent versions of a nature-inspired model, Reaction Systems.

Skills Highlight

Ship end-to-end

From architectural planning to implementation, rollout. Primarily BE (Java/Python/JS/TS) but also FE.

Communicate effectively

Articulate trade-offs. Drive alignment. Translate between product and engineering.

Persistence and messaging

Skilled in SQL (Postgres); can design schemas and optimize queries. Work with messaging (Kafka, Redis) and durable execution (Temporal).

AI Engineering

Ship self-hosted (Gemma, Docling) and hosted (OpenAI, AOAI) models. Monitor and tune them in production, focusing on safety and reliability.

Fun Stuff

Teaching

BSc/MSc-level lecturer since 2015, teaching groups of 10-20. Some courses I was involved in: Java, web technologies, software architecture.

Community

Co-organized a beginner-friendly IT meetup, called Step into Meetups. Our online and in-person sessions were attended by up to 100 participants.

Tech I Daily Drive

Python
Django, FastAPI
Java
Quarkus, Spring
Cloud
Fly, DO, AWS, Neon
DB
Postgres, Kafka, Redis
Frontend
Vanilla, Astro, Alpine, Tailwind
Extra
Rust, Node.js