About
I'm Mate Papp, a Software Engineer, a lifelong learner and teacher, an Apple fanboy, a wannabe home barista, and a productivity nerd (= too lazy). Originally from Hungary, currently living in beautiful Barcelona, Spain with my beloved wife.
During weekdays, 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 & iterate on my ideas.
Beside of work, I enjoy spending time with my friends & family by traveling together, playing board games, or meeting to drink a great coffee or craft beer. Apart from that, a couple of my hobbies are visiting conferences and meetups (sometimes speak), music & podcasts, and playing any kind of team sports.
Over the years, I’ve become passionate about coffee. Nowadays, I experiment with different brewing methods at home (mostly espresso, V60, AeroPress, and Cold Brew).
Career
2021
November
Made my first 17,13$ online by running Historico as a paid app for a month.
October
Wrote my first blog post about writing (meta-writing).
July
Transitioned to the Web Platform team within Glovo.
May
Released my first, indie iOS application, Historico to the App Store.
2020
September
Moved to Barcelona.
June
Joined the Content & Partners cluster within Glovo as a Senior Frontend Engineer.
April
Built the first version of matepapp.com website to learn and experiment with TailwindCSS 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-day workshop at JSConf BP '19 about the beauty and possible opportunities of JAMStack.
July
Left Supercharge in order to focus on Cogito full-time. I've lead the development team and helped building 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, Cogito with 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 agency in Hungary, Supercharge as an iOS Developer. I worked on several client projects, from huge mobile- & internet banking systems to small, early stage startup products.
April
Hold a Design Principles workshop for newjoiners at Simonyi Károly College for Advanced Studies.
March
Started a new job at Fornax ICT as an iOS Developer. Part of a cross-functional team, we were building enterprise level project- and resource management applications.
2016
December
Joined the organizer team of the XIV. Simonyi Conference.
July
Started my professional career as an iOS Developer Intern (later Junior) part of POSSIBLE CEE.
April
Participated in UXStudio's Practice oriented UX & UI training program.
2015
November
Started learning iOS application development in my free time.
October
Joined Schönherz Design Studio, the design focused volunteer team within Simonyi Károly College for Advanced Studies.
June - September
Worked 3 months in the US as part of a staff member of a Summer Camp. 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.
Recently played
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 boardgames
- cooking
- learning new things