Mice Pápai
Full-stack Developer

Full-stack AI developer in Budapest. Ten years in software; these days I build data- and ML-enabled products and own them across the stack: ML, backend, and frontend.

That means model training and applied ML with large language models, the data pipelines that feed them, the backends that serve them, and the frontends people actually use. Mostly Python and TypeScript.

I do my best work owning a feature from raw data to deployed UI, the part most teams split across three people. Looking for a team where that's an advantage.

Experience

Scale AI (2024–present)

Full-Stack AI Developer
  • Owned a data-annotation app end to end, across ML, backend, and frontend.
  • Wrote the CAD-file parsing and conversion libraries behind its annotation workflow.
  • Built a WebGL library for viewing and interacting with CAD files, now used across many Scale apps.
  • Shipped applied-ML and GenAI features on top of large language models.
  • Built the data pipelines and ML workflows behind them.
  • Contributed to the core platform (FastAPI backend, React frontend).

Digital Thinkers (2023)

Tech Lead
  • Translated stakeholder goals into project scope and delivery roadmaps.
  • Led the web development team across both backend and frontend work.
  • Set up code review processes and quality standards for the team.
  • Mentored team members and supported their growth.
  • Streamlined the design-and-QA workflow across the team.

Vacuumlabs (2019–2022)

Node/React Full-Stack Developer
  • Built fintech applications including banking systems and cryptocurrency tools.
  • Developed desktop cryptocurrency wallets for IOHK using TypeScript, React, and Web3.js.
  • Led the frontend team, working closely with designers and backend developers.
  • Mentored peers on functional-programming patterns in TypeScript.
  • Coordinated remote frontend delivery across multiple time zones.

RoadRecord (2018–2019)

Python Backend Developer
  • Built backend services using Django, Redis, PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ.
  • Shipped features in lockstep with the Angular frontend team.
  • Upgraded the codebase from Python 2 to Python 3 without disruption.

Endless Flux Labs (2018)

PHP/JS Full-Stack Developer
  • Built the company's news-site platform, a large WordPress app template (PHP, MySQL, JS) that was the shared feature set every site was built on.
  • Used it to ship and run multiple custom Hungarian news sites.
  • Built advanced image-management features into the platform.

Freelancing (2015–2018)

Freelance Developer
  • Built web applications using Python, Java, PHP, and R.
  • Managed client relationships from initial contact to delivery.
  • Built a client base through networking and successful deliveries.

Personal (2005–present)

Developer - highlighted projects
  • Built cosmetic.science end to end, solo: an evidence-based skincare-ingredient reference, from the data pipeline to the design system and frontend (Astro, React, TypeScript).
  • Built early AI projects: Csinszka, a Hungarian chatbot; computer-vision prototypes on neural networks; and Mixnose, a YouTube recommendation engine.
  • Wrote social-graph analysis tools for Last.fm and Instagram.
  • Shipped Android apps (including a gyroscope-based social camera) and Drupal art-community sites.
  • Always building little tools for myself, like album_mosaic, a virtual vinyl collection for listening to whole albums (something Spotify makes hard).
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Skills

  • Model training: fine-tuning, eval harnesses, and regression tests
  • Applied ML & GenAI: LLM features, RAG, agents
  • Data pipelines: turning raw data into something a model can actually learn from
  • Backends: production APIs in Python (FastAPI) and Node
  • Frontends: React and TypeScript, design included
  • Mentoring: code review and helping other developers level up

Motivation

  • Hard problems over busywork.
  • Good engineers around me, people who care about the craft.
  • Remote, for focus.
  • Direct communication, low ego.
  • New tools when they earn it, not for the hype.

Languages

  • Magyar (native)
  • English (fluent)
  • Español (intermediate)
  • Русский (basic)

Interests

  • Photography
  • Music
  • Fine arts
  • Language learning
  • Backpacking

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