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About

A slightly more personal overview of how I work, what I care about, and the path that brought me from iOS into frontend engineering, independent projects.

Mate Papp is drinking espresso.

I’m Mate Papp, a software engineer, lifelong learner, teacher, home barista, and productivity nerd. I’m originally from Hungary and now living in Barcelona, Spain, with my wife.

During the week, I work as a senior frontend engineer at Glovo. Previously, I was also an iOS developer, and I've co-founded a startup. On weekends, I like to build and iterate on my ideas.

Outside work, I enjoy spending time with my friends and family by traveling together, playing board games, or meeting for great coffee or craft beer. A couple of my hobbies are music, podcasts, visiting conferences and meetups, and playing team sports.

Over the years, I’ve become passionate about coffee. Nowadays, I experiment with different brewing methods at home, mostly espresso, V60, AeroPress, and cold brew.

Timeline

Career

2021

2020

  • September

    Moved to Barcelona.

  • June

    Joined the Content & Partners cluster within Glovo as a senior frontend engineer.

  • April

    Built the first version of matepapp.com to learn and experiment with Tailwind CSS and Next.js.

  • March

    Partly, because of the pandemic we decided to shut down Cogito and look for other opportunities.

2019

  • September

    Mentored a half-day workshop at JSConf BP '19 about the beauty and possibilities of JAMstack.

  • July

    Left Supercharge in order to focus on Cogito full-time. I've led the development team and helped build the foundations and product of Cogito.

  • February

    Had my first & second Meetup talks, plus a workshop within the company about GraphQL in general, and for iOS Developers.

2018

  • August

    Moved to the Web team within Supercharge.

  • June

    Graduated as a Computer Engineer BSc at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. My final thesis was the very early version of Cogito.

  • March

    Officially founded our startup, Cogito with 5 friends of mine. Cogito is a community based, collaborative learning management platform mainly for universities. Initially, we participated in an incubator program, StartIT@K&H.

2017

  • November

    Joined one of the biggest digital agencies in Hungary, Supercharge as an iOS developer. I worked on several client projects, from huge mobile and internet banking systems to small, early-stage startup products.

  • April

    Held a design principles workshop for new joiners at Simonyi Károly College for Advanced Studies .

  • March

    Started a new job at Fornax ICT as an iOS developer. As part of a cross-functional team, we were building enterprise-level project and resource management applications.

2016

  • December

    Joined the organizer team of the XIV. Simonyi Conference .

  • July

    Started my professional career as an iOS developer intern, later junior, at POSSIBLE CEE.

  • April

    Participated in UX Studio's practice-oriented UX and UI training program.

2015

  • November

    Started learning iOS application development in my free time.

  • October

    Joined Schönherz Design Studio, the design-focused volunteer team within Simonyi Károly College for Advanced Studies.

  • June - September

    Worked for three months in the US as a summer camp staff member. I had a chance to visit New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Niagara Falls, and Los Angeles.

2014

  • August

    Moved to Budapest and started university at Budapest University of Technology and Economics as a Computer Engineer.

  • June

    Finished high school at Nagy Lajos Gimnázium Szombathely.

Life outside work

Hobbies

  • spending time with friends & family
  • brewing coffee
  • listening to podcasts
  • reading books & articles
  • playing team sports
  • attending meetups & conferences
  • traveling
  • functional training
  • cycling
  • playing board games
  • cooking
  • learning new things