About me

Hey there, I’m Daniel and this is me and my journey into the world of iOS development.

Originally I started out in the fast-paced world of FX trading as a trader, dealing high volume trades on the sale side for large, multinational corporate clients in Budapest.

This job was really fun and I think I was pretty good at it. But I always felt like an immigrant in this field, like the job had chosen me. I didn’t like sales and sales was pretty much the job title.

However, lucky for me and for them, they had an online trading platform without an owner. At the time I was a comp. science undergrad and they were looking for someone who could be an intermediary between them (business) and the developers in Vienna. I was curious and took the job. 

I got an outdated, unpopular app that was not touched by any developer for years. It was in a rough shape. However, I also was lucky to be part of a team of about 20 really awesome people who were eager to renew this old app. I miss these people, I happy I got to know them.

  • As product owner I took part in upgrading the application to an HTML & Javascript based platform.
  • Initiated a marketing campaign for the redesigned app where I created the templates for the online and physical marketing materials.
  • Trained hundreds of employees to increase sales and user activity

This was when I decided I wanna fully understand how an app idea becomes reality. Had a relatively old MacBook at home, so I decided to actually use it & started to learn Swift. The more I dived into it the more I realized that this is the world I belong to.

During the days I couldn’t wait to get home so I can continue my Swift courseworks but when the coding bug really bit me was when I started to build my own projects.