Csaba Boros
Csaba Boros
Hello
I'm
Csaba Boros

Senior Software Engineer & Cloud Architect
I design and deliver production systems end-to-end, from cloud architecture and infrastructure to backend code and deployment.

With 12+ years of experience, I help teams build scalable, secure, and maintainable systems using AWS, Kubernetes, and modern backend technologies.

Ranked in the top 3% of developers worldwide by Toptal.

🌍 EU-based - Available for US companies as a contractor • Flexible overlap with US time zones
Let's have a chat!
Contact me at:
boros.csaba94@gmail.com

Available for contract work, preferably on a long term basis.

Your project isn't going the way you hoped? Let me take a look at your code base from a fresh perspective and help you finding the right direction for your project!

Focus Areas
  • End-to-end ownership of production systems
  • AWS cloud architecture and infrastructure
  • Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines
  • Kubernetes and container-based platforms
  • Scalable, reliable backend systems
Some of the technologies I use
AWS
AWS
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Terraform
Terraform
Docker
Docker
.NETPython
Backend Systems (.NET, Python)
PostgreSQLSQL ServerDynamoDB
Databases (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, NoSQL)
CI/CD
CI/CD
EventBridge
Event-driven systems
Observability
Observability / Monitoring
Work history
Senior Back End Developer
2022 - Present
Bitstop
Led the migration of the whole platform's authentication to Auth0 across 10+ services, with a "dual-accept" rollout and the Auth0 setup defined in Terraform. Built customer passwordless login on AWS Cognito with custom Lambda challenges. Introduced TimescaleDB for ATM heartbeats, ingesting ~7M events a day from ~2,000 machines with ~37× compression, and own the heartbeat pipeline with a rule engine for machine events, automated recovery and dispatch routing.
Technologies: C#, .NET 8, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, RabbitMQ, MassTransit, Redis, Python, React, Auth0, AWS (Cognito, Lambda, S3), Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenTelemetry
Lead Software Engineer & Product Architect
2026 - Present
TB Dispatch Pro
Developing a dispatch and delivery management SaaS for oversized household goods. Leading a UI/UX redesign with a reusable design system, built a new Projects feature end to end, extended the Onward delivery integration, added a SignalR SQL Server backplane and built a Playwright E2E suite of 70+ specs.
Technologies: C#, .NET 10, ASP.NET Core, Angular, TypeScript, Azure SQL, SignalR, Hangfire, Playwright, GitHub Actions, Azure
Lead Software Engineer & Product Architect
2026
STC Verishield
Led development of a multi-tenant background-screening platform with admin, client and candidate portals. Integrated Affirm, SambaSafety and Quest Diagnostics, built FCRA compliance workflows, encrypted candidate PII with AES-256-GCM and implemented card payments and automated month-end billing.
Technologies: TypeScript, Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, Firebase, GCP, NMI, Sentry, Playwright
Senior Backend & AI Engineer
2025 - 2026
Guardare
Built features for a multi-tenant cybersecurity risk-management SaaS: a .NET 10 REST API with 70+ controllers, real-time updates with SignalR, Hangfire workers on Azure Container Apps and a data integration engine with 80+ connectors. Contributed to LLM-powered reports and recommendations, and fixed N+1 queries and memory issues.
Technologies: C#, .NET 10, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, PostgreSQL, Redis, Hangfire, SignalR, Azure, Python, OpenAI, React
Senior Backend & AI Engineer
2025 - 2026
SportFX
Built an AI chat service for an AI-powered sports performance platform: a GPT-4.1 agent with tool calling and pgvector semantic search, streaming responses over SSE with usage quotas tied to subscription credits. Contributed to the core FastAPI backend, roles, consent tracking and the subscription model.
Technologies: Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, pgvector, OpenAI Agents SDK, LangChain, Auth0, Docker, React, TypeScript
Lead Security and DevOps Engineer
2024
Kuraray / Calgon Carbon Corporation
Built an internal web app for sieve analysis of activated carbon with real-time calculations and charts, an ASP.NET Core REST API, Active Directory login over LDAP and Azure DevOps pipelines deploying to on-premise IIS.
Technologies: C#, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, SQL Server, LDAP, Angular, Chart.js, Azure DevOps, IIS
Senior Full Stack Engineer
2023
University of Pittsburgh
Modernised the UI of a legacy ASP.NET Web Forms application written in VB.NET, turning Figma designs into responsive screens with Tailwind CSS. Set up a staging environment and Azure DevOps deployment pipelines.
Technologies: ASP.NET Web Forms, VB.NET, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, SQL Server, IIS, Azure DevOps
Lead Software Engineer & Product Architect
2022 - 2025
Baxter Research
Worked on the core platform of a US background-screening research company: an ASP.NET Core API, Blazor WebAssembly staff and client portals, and 12+ integration services with screening platforms including SOAP/WCF interfaces. Ran per-service CI/CD in Azure DevOps.
Technologies: C#, .NET 9, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, SignalR, EF, SQL Server, WCF/SOAP, Twilio, Azure DevOps, Azure Key Vault, IIS
DevOps Engineer
2022 - 2023
Bethune Consulting
Set up CI/CD pipelines for a range of client projects, tailored to each client's stack and hosting, including automated Netlify deployments with pull request previews.
Technologies: Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, Netlify, GitHub, Docker
Senior Full Stack Developer
2021 - 2022
Sellff
Built the payment system of a social marketplace for professionals on Stripe Connect: Express account onboarding, paid consultations, funded reward campaigns, reward payouts with a reconcilable transaction ledger and on-demand payouts.
Technologies: C#, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, SQL Server, Stripe Connect, React, TypeScript, AWS S3
Software Developer
2021 - 2022
Lombiq Technologies Ltd
Worked on the development of a Visual Studio Extension and implemented new features in various client CMS websites. Also developed UI features using jQuery.
Technologies: ASP.NET Core, Orchard CMS, jQuery, Javascript
Technical Lead
2014 - 2021
BCM
Planned and coded a complex data migration tool affecting multiple systems. Achieved huge performance gains by profiling and optimizing a very large legacy system. Managed and supervised the work of junior programmers on multiple small and mid-sized projects. Worked on creating a complex Angular-based front-end for a telecommunications network diagram creator tool. Created a project management application using XAF.
Technologies: SQL, C#, DevExpress, Knockout.js, Angular, ASP.NET MVC
Posts and tutorials
Upload docker image to AWS ECR
A quick tutorial on how to upload a Docker image to AWS ECR using AWS CLI. The tutorial also walks you through setting up an IAM user with the necessary permissions to upload to ECR from the CLI.
DevOps AWS ECR Docker
Terraform local file
An easy way to start playing around with terraform locally without using any cloud account or any complicated local kubernetes setup.
DevOps Terraform
Encryption at rest
Encryption at rest can come in handy when we have some sensitive data that we need to store in our database and we don't want to store it in plain text for everyone to see. In my case I needed to store some API keys in the database...
Entity Framework Security C# .NET
SSL
As with any technology, I think it's very important that first we understand the problem that this technology is trying to solve. Let's try to understand the problem through an example...
DevOps Security
Portfolio architecture
Initially I just created a simple static HTML and CSS page with some images to serve as my portfolio page - no frameworks, (almost) no javascript - why over complicate it? After some time I decided that I would also write a few blog posts and tutorials...
11ty Amazon S3 Github Actions CloudFront
SQL add days
Recently I had a task that seemed very simple at first. I had a table with billing start dates and number of business days to bill. The task was to calculate the end date for each row. Basically to calculate the start date + number of business days...
SQL MS SQL Server
Certifications
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