Curriculum Vitae

Balázs Aladár Tóth
Profile
Strategic technical partner for founders and product teams building complex systems that must remain coherent as they grow.
I translate vision into architecture.
With 20+ years of experience across aviation, automotive, telecommunications, e-learning and digital platforms, I operate at the intersection of systems design, product thinking and human collaboration.
I am often brought in when:
- A product is scaling and structural cracks begin to surface
- Technical debt accumulates quietly
- Creative direction and architecture drift apart
- Founders need a trusted technical counterpart who sees the whole field
I combine deep hands-on literacy — from low-level programming to cloud-native systems — with high-level pattern recognition. I sense structural friction early, detect incoherence before it calcifies, and help teams make decisions that preserve long-term clarity over short-term patchwork.
I build when needed — but my strength lies in shaping systems so others can build well.
I work best with intelligent, design-sensitive teams who care about what they are creating and why.
I am drawn to frontier domains where emerging structures need stabilization. In those environments, I bridge builders and decision-makers, mentor without ego, and help shape systems that remain clear, steady and human as they evolve.
Particularly interested in:
- Creative tech
- Media-tech hybrids
- Educational platforms
- Early-to-mid stage companies scaling responsibly
- Purpose-driven digital products
Open to Vienna-based or international hybrid environments.
Core Capabilities
- Translating product vision into sustainable technical direction
- Identifying architectural drift and structural risk early
- Bridging founders, product and engineering
- Technical mentoring & know-how transfer
- Guiding long-term architectural decisions
- Complex system assessment
- Structural modernization & simplification
- Technical due diligence
- Cross-domain integration coordination
- Incremental & evolutionary development environments
- Cross-disciplinary alignment without unnecessary process overhead
- Clear written and spoken technical communication
- Remote & distributed collaboration
Technical Foundation
- Solution & system architecture (C4 Model, arc42)
- Distributed systems & integration patterns
- Cloud-native & modular design
- Architectural documentation (PlantUML, Mermaid)
- Go, Python, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript
- C, C++, Object Pascal
- SQL / PL-SQL, Groovy
- Shell scripting
- Intel Assembly (foundational systems work)
- Spring Boot, Hibernate, Quarkus, GraalVM
- Node.js (incl. NestJS)
- RESTful & messaging-based systems
- React, Vue.js, Next.js
- HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind
- Handlebars
- Dojo (legacy enterprise systems)
- RabbitMQ, Kafka, ActiveMQ Artemis
- Redis (caching & pub/sub)
- AWS, Microsoft Azure
- Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher
- Terraform, GitOps
- CI/CD pipelines
- SQL: PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, MySQL
- NoSQL: MongoDB, Redis
- Embedded: SQLite, H2
- Liquibase
- Grafana, Prometheus
- ELK Stack
- GitHub
- JIRA, Confluence
- Linux, Windows Server, macOS/BSD, Solaris, AIX
Professional Experience
Independent & Long-Term Technical Work
Custom rendering engines, DOS graphics drivers, assembly-level experimentation, cross-platform design.
Education & Professional Development
Technology
- B.Sc. Information Technology Engineering
Budapest Polytechnic of Technology (2002-2004) - IT & Economics studies — University of Veszprém, Hungary (1997-2001)
- Certified Scrum Master (2017)
Facilitation & Transpersonal Work
- Facilitator of Holotropic Breathwork®
(trained in Transpersonal Psychology, GTT) (2014-2024) - Facilitator of Grof® Breathwork (GLT) (2024)
- Sports trainer, Yoga instructor, FMS instructor, Clubbell instructor (2008-2014)
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