Budapest, Hungary
Károly Bödei
Engineering Leader
Craft Code Enjoyer with a bit of AI flavour.
Who I am
About
Curious engineering leader who enjoys diving into technical literature, experimenting with new technologies, and thinking about scalable systems. These days I'm exploring Go, diving into distributed design hell, taming AWS, and pursuing ikigai through engineering.
Years in software
Shipped projects
Articles read on daily.dev
Languages
- HungarianNative
- EnglishProfessional working proficiency
- GermanBasic
Where I've worked
Experience
Building software since 2016 — a few highlights below.
Backend Chapter Lead · Trendency Online
Apr 2024 – PresentBudapest, Hungary
- Lead the backend team (~25 engineers), owning engineering standards, architectural direction, and capability development across multiple teams delivering high-impact digital products.
- Drove company-wide adoption of AI-assisted development — evaluated and rolled out AI coding tools, and set usage standards and guardrails across the SDLC. Proved the methodology hands-on — personally shipped several production projects end-to-end using AI-assisted development.
- Defined and enforced development best practices and quality benchmarks through the SDLC
- Drove Developer Experience (DX) improvements across tooling and workflows
Senior Software Engineer · Trendency Online
Jun 2022 – Apr 2024Budapest, Hungary
- Backend engineer focused on architecture-heavy product development in an enterprise-scale environment.
- Designed and implemented a modular CMS framework based on CQRS and Hexagonal Architecture.
- Built scalable systems serving high-traffic news portals and campaign platforms with ~2M daily visitors.
What I've built
Projects
today
News-intelligence platform using microservices and AI processing to aggregate and analyze news.
rss2msg
Go service for polling RSS/Atom/JSON feeds with configurable message routing.
mario
CLI for OpenAPI specification analysis and orchestration.
Tippmix Radar
Real-time sports-betting platform built on AWS.
Nova
Multisite CMS with event organization, built on Google Cloud Platform.
30+ more projects, under NDA
Confidential client and internal systems I can't show publicly — happy to walk through them in person.
Under the hood
Skills
The stack behind everything above — including the 30+projects I can't show publicly.
Leadership
AI
Languages & Frameworks
Cloud & Infra
DevOps
Backend
Data & Messaging
Observability
…and plenty more
New languages, tools, and platforms with every project — this is a snapshot, not the whole toolbox.
Where I studied
Education
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
2017 – 2022BSc · Computer Science Engineering
Budapest, Hungary
- Major in Software Engineering.
- Minor in Modern Platforms — Kubernetes and observability.
Kölcsey Ferenc Gimnázium
2012 – 2017English Bilingual and Multilingual Education
Zalaegerszeg, Hungary
Recognition
Awards & Certifications
Awards
Professional Leader of the Year
2025Trendency Online
Backend Engineer of the Year
2023Trendency Online
Certifications
Jira Service Management
2023META-INF · Atlassian
Jira and Confluence Basics
2022META-INF · Atlassian
Say hello
Get in touch
Interested in working together or just want to talk shop? Reach out on any of these.