Arnold Csisztai

Full Stack Web Developer


Github: https://github.com/csisztaiarnold
Showcase: https://jailbird.hu
Email: csisztai.arnold@gmail.com
Telegram: https://t.me/arnoldc

WORK EXPERIENCE

Leading Edge Creative, Australia 2006 → 2008
My first freelance employer. Cooperated in different periods of time. WordPress, Joomla, and custom PHP solutions.

Freelance work 2008 → 2014
A lot of freelance work for different employers. Mainly custom PHP solutions in CodeIgniter and Laravel.

Evista Creative Agency, Hungary 2014 → 2016
Full stack programming, mainly WordPress based projects, but some custom PHP solutions as well.

Nexum Kft, Hungary 2017
I was part of a team which is responsible for the development of Profession, Hungary's leading job search website (Laravel).

CAS Software Kft., Hungary 2017 → 2018
Responsible for full-stack development and maintenance of web-based platforms of the company (mainly WordPress).

Pronovix, Hungary 2018 → 2022
Responsible for backend and frontend tasks mainly in Drupal 9 based developer portals.

Oander, Hungary 2022 → 2023
Magento backend (and a bit of frontend) development. Responsible for creating new modules, extending existing modules, and for bugfixes/tech support.

Netrix, Hungary 2023 → now
Working as a full-stack developer on an in-house, custom CMS for creating digital business reports.

ABOUT ME

I am currently living in Szeged, Hungary and I work as a full stack web developer since 2002.

I speak Hungarian and Serbian natively, and English on a relatively high, technical level.

I am open to new tech and I constantly try to learn and be informed, but I don't get easily distracted. I tend to focus on easily adaptable, well-documented, entrenched, lightweight and clear-cut foundations when I build applications, and keep complexity to a minimum where possible. I am a strong proponent of the KISS, the YAGNI, and the DRY principles.

The main values I try to live by in all aspects of my life are rationality, openness, sincere communication, modesty, purity, patience, resourcefulness and humble dignity towards traditions and established practices.

SKILLS

Backend
During my career I have met with Python, Perl, ASP, ActionScript, Rails and Go for shorter or longer periods, but I work most quickly and efficiently with PHP (continuous practice starting from purely procedural PHP 4 up to object oriented PHP 8).

Taking into account PHP frameworks, I have the most experience with CodeIgniter and Laravel, but I have also used Symfony, Yii, CakePHP and Phalcon.

Frontend
I have worked with frontend since the beginning of my career, and I have a sensible knowledge of XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Regarding JS, I have the most experience in writing jQuery and vanilla JS (ES6), but I also had involvement in React projects.
At the moment I am learning TypeScript.

Databases
I am mainly familiar with relational databases (mostly MySQL/MariaDB, but SQLite and PostgreSQL too), but in the past I have used non-relational databases (mainly MongoDB) too.

Other knowledge and experience
- Experience with Content Management Systems: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, TYPO3.
- Experience with Linux (both GUI and CLI). I have a self-built Ubuntu based LAMP server for hosting my hobby-projects
- I use Docker as a dev environment.
- I use PHPStorm for writing code (equipped with sniffers, mess detectors, linters and debuggers).
- I use Git for version control.
- Experience with unit- and functional testing with PHPUnit, and also have experience with Behat.