István Kovács Email & Phone Number

Budapest, Hungary

Budapest, Hungary

Leading the design, implementation, and maintenance of features and services in the Android app, collaborating closely with product, design, and fellow engineers in a cross-functional team. - Shipped a project with 3 mobile engineers to migrate the map provider from Google Maps to Mapbox within the apps, decreasing dropped frames per session by 75%. - Delivered a legally mandated, mission-critical enhanced End Ride Verification flow, leading a team of 2 mobile engineers, enabling TIER to launch in 10 cities across Italy. - Collaborated with backend engineers to implement a revamped In-App Navigation flow, incorporating features like zone avoidance and end-ride guidance, reducing end-ride parking errors by nearly 25%. - Played a pivotal role in modularizing the Android app by standardizing the process and architecture for breaking down the monolithic app, which enabled 5 product teams to create nearly 200 modules. - Developed a command-line tool for mobile engineers to generate Android modules, which eliminated new module setup time across 5 product teams.

Budapest, Hungary

Budapest, Hungary

- Introduced a Terraform-based solution to centralize and simplify access management and configuration changes, decreasing the maintenance cost of 300 repositories on GitHub.- Revamped submodule handling in Git Clone, decreasing execution time by 50% for customers using Git submodules.- Designed and implemented a Go package simplifying OAuth integration, used in every newly created internal service.

Budapest, Hungary

Delivered and maintained features and services primarily in the Android app while also contributing to the iOS app, working closely with product, design, and other engineers in a cross-functional team. - Participated in a project on redesigning and reimplementing the login experience within the apps, leading to an increase of almost 60% in activation rates. - Contributed to shipping an enhanced onboarding experience by implementing a price calendar for hotels which significantly increased the number of hotel searches among new users. - Initiated and executed a project proposal that expanded automated UI tests, covering the majority of the team's ownership reducing manual testing costs by 50%.

Budapest, Hungary

I was taking part both in Android and iOS development. I got familiar with the basics of how to deploy scalable solutions in an application that serves millions of active users a month. Through this period, I participated in impactful projects, including rebranding several features in the application.