ZsomborHorvath.
20 y/o software engineer chasing fast systems, sharp interfaces, and the occasional hackathon medal. Building from Delft, shipping for teams from Budapest to Clichy.
Companies I've built with
From a remote engineering role at 16 to an incoming SDE seat at Amazon — a vertical timeline of where I've shipped real code.
Amazon Web ServicesIncoming
Jul 2026 – Dec 2026Software Development Engineer InternDublin, Ireland
- Incoming SDE intern at AWS. Selected through a competitive technical loop focusing on scalable systems, data structures, and Leadership Principles.
Altix
Apr 2026 – PresentAI Engineer InternAmsterdam, Netherlands
- Designed and implemented an end-to-end RAG pipeline — query rewriting, classification / routing, retrieval, streaming answer generation, and citation resolution.
- Built hybrid retrieval over a Weaviate vector DB: semantic + BM25 keyword search fused with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and reranked with a cross-encoder.
- Engineered grounded answer generation with Claude — structured output with inline citations resolved back to source document, page, and excerpt.
- Implemented hallucination prevention: verification model flags unsupported claims with confidence scoring.
- Added a semantic caching layer (Redis, cosine similarity) to cut latency and cost on repeat queries; enforced strict multi-tenant isolation across retrieval and caching.
Virtual Front Desk
Dec 2022 – PresentSoftware EngineerRemote
- Spearheaded a team of 4 engineers to architect a high-availability video calling platform, scaling to 6,000+ Weekly Active Users.
- Engineered scalable RESTful services using Express.js & Azure, optimizing server-side logic to achieve a 15% reduction in API latency.
- Developed custom React Native native modules in Java/Swift for hardware integration, resulting in a 20% boost in frame rates.
Redmenta
Sept 2022 – Oct 2023Software Engineer InternBudapest, Hungary
- Architected RESTful APIs using PHP / Laravel and SQL, supporting 1,500+ MAU with high data integrity.
- Engineered production-ready UI components using React & Redux, focused on reusable component architecture.
tOURmix
Feb 2022 – Oct 2022Software Engineer · Part-timeBudapest, Hungary
- Developed and maintained applications written in React, TypeScript, Next.js, and NestJS.
- Expanded DevOps knowledge with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
- Created tags in Google Tag Manager and analyzed data in Google Analytics.
Selected projects
Four side-projects spanning realtime systems, small language models, mobile vision, and a hackathon-grade match engine.
PrSentry
AI-powered code review agent that posts inline comments on your GitHub PRs.
NicheLM
Fine-tunes small open-source LLMs on tightly-scoped domain data — turning a 7B model into something that beats giants on a single, specific task.
SplitShot
Scan a receipt, snap a photo, and SplitShot uses on-device vision to itemize, assign and settle a group bill in seconds. No accounts, no friction.
DelftXJunction
A smart courier optimization platform designed to help Uber Eats couriers maximize their earnings while promoting work-life balance and well-being.
Where I'm learning
Currently mid-BSc at TU Delft (top 10%), starting a Business minor in September.
TU Delft
BSc in Computer Science · Delft, Netherlands
TU Delft — Business Minor
Engineering meets entrepreneurship — strategy, finance, and product thinking layered on top of the CS core.
Secondary School
Budapest, Hungary · Maths & CS focus track.
The stack
Languages
Frameworks
Cloud / Tools
Let's build something cosmic.
I'm open to internships, freelance, hackathons, and good coffee. Easiest is email — I read everything.