Hello World

I'm Gergő Harkály, a full-stack web developer from Budapest, Hungary. In the last ~15 years I helped for a lot of companies, mostly as freelancer, usually worked with WordPress (+WooCommerce) CMS or Symfony PHP framework, but I have experience with Joomla, Magento, OpenCart, PrestaShop, ShopRenter, Shopify and many other applications.

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Currently I am a lead PHP developer & operational manager of a Hungarian company, which offers paper-based products with individual graphics, like wedding invitation, baby greeting card, corporate gift card, etc. My main task is to build the business in Hungary, then in Germany and in Poland, and later in other European countries too. I manage the firm, workflows and colleagues and make decisions, plus develop our webshop and web application.

I like creating, developing custom plugins and modules and web applications. In my opinion a system should be based on four corner points: maintainability, optimization, safety and speed. In 2023 I have started to use AI opportunities, for example GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT; and I also started to make open source applications, those are available for everyone on my public GitHub repositories.

I am a husband and a father of a boy (born in December 2020). We live in the capital of Hungary, Budapest. I love watches, it is very interesting for me how complex solutions are crammed into such a small space.

What am I looking for?

I have a full time job with 30 days notice period in Budapest, Hungary, but I am open for new opportunities to move to abroad in the near future with my family. Instead of a 40 hours full time job the best would be 36 hours / week job, 7 work hours on weekdays (from Monday to Friday) and extra 1 hour is for weekend availability for any urgent problem.

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