Balazs Saros

Senior Frontend Engineer

Budapest, Hungary
[email protected]
linkedin.com/in/bsaros
github.com/balzss

Professional Summary

Senior Frontend Engineer with 8+ years of experience specializing in React, TypeScript, and accessibility (WCAG). Experienced in building and maintaining design system component libraries, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling. Active open-source contributor.

Work Experience

Sr. Frontend Engineer

May 2023 - Present
Instructure
  • Maintain and extend InstUI, a React component library used across Instructure products, with a focus on WCAG accessibility compliance
  • Led migration of legacy Karma unit tests to Vitest
  • Introduced integration testing with Cypress
  • Modernized the release pipeline, reducing manual steps and improving release reliability
  • Mentor and onboard interns on best practices and code review

Frontend Engineer

Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
IBM Budapest Lab
  • Contributed to Carbon Design System, IBM's open-source React component library
  • Built custom middleware and improved user onboarding flows for IBM Cloud

Frontend Developer

Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
ChemAxon
  • Worked on an administrative product for customers, connecting data from other company services
  • Built React extensions for Tableau as part of a greenfield project

Jr. Software Developer

Oct 2017 - Jul 2018
iMind.eu
  • Developed client projects including joszaki.hu, 4D Motion Golf, and quantified.company

Software Developer Intern

Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Mortoff IT Consulting and Services
  • Learned full-stack development with AngularJS and Java Spring

Skills

Languages:
JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
Frameworks:
React, Next.js, Material UI, Tailwind CSS, Styled Components
Testing:
Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Vitest, Chromatic
Tools:
Git, Webpack, Vite, Babel, GitHub Actions, Docker

Education

BSc, Computer Engineering

Budapest University of Technology and Economics