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.
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 myhobbies 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, mostlyespresso,V60,AeroPress, andcold brew.
Timeline
Career
2021
November
Made my first 17,13$ onlineby runningHistoricoas a paid app for a month.
October
Wrote my firstblog post about writing(meta-writing).
July
Transitioned to the Web Platform team within Glovo.
May
Released my first, indie iOS application,Historicoto the App Store.
2020
September
Moved to Barcelona.
June
Joined the Content & Partners cluster withinGlovoas 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-dayworkshop at JSConf BP '19about 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,Cogitowith 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,Superchargeas 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 atSimonyi 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 theXIV. 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
JoinedSchönherz 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