Peter Hamza

Senior Frontend Developer

Hungary
Hey there! I’m a senior frontend developer with a passion for all things design and over 20 years of experience in building online products.

I enjoy working with UI components and crafting polished, snappy and pixel perfect user experiences using React and Next.js.

Over my career I founded multiple startups. My most significant success was in 2009 when Getty Images acquired Stockxpert, the stock photo marketplace I built and scaled to 4 million users.

Work Experience

Dream Interactive

Art Director

• Designed various static, dynamic and interactive websites
• As a side project, designed, developed and managed Inertia, Hungary’s first and
largest online community for web and graphic designers, featuring news, forums and contests
• Self-published a limited edition design album featuring the work of over 100+ world renowned artists
• Designed, developed and managed stock.xchng, a free stock photo
exchange site that evolved into a massive community of over 4 million people
January 2001 - January 2005 Hungary

Stockxpert / Stock.xchng

Co-founder / CEO / Full stack developer

• Built first paid stock photo service Stockxpert via HAAP Media in 2005, based on the success of my free stock photo exchange service (sxc.hu)
• Both services were acquired by Getty Images in 2009
• Designed all agency internal processes including ingesting and reviewing content, subscription and prepaid credit management, royalty payments etc.
• Created Stockxpert's brand identity
• Designed and developed the entire ecommerce website and admin / CMS interface (backend and
frontend) featuring over 10 languages (responsive and SEO friendly)
• Integrated multiple payment processing services including WorldPay, Braintree,
PayPal and Skrill
• Designed and maintained a MySQL database containing over 5 million images, 4
million users and 200 million keywords
• Implemented a fast multilingual full text engine using Sphinx with multiple filters such
as color and copy space
• Managed a team of content reviewers from all over the globe
• Tech stack: PHP / MySQL / JS / HTML / CSS
January 2005 - December 2009 Hungary

Stockfresh

Co-founder / CEO / Full stack developer

• Launched second paid stock photo service Stockfresh in 2009
• Sold to Stock Photo Secrets in 2020
• Designed all agency internal processes including ingesting and reviewing content, subscription and prepaid credit management, royalty payments etc.
• Created Stockfresh's brand identity
• Designed and developed the entire ecommerce website and admin / CMS interface (backend and
frontend) featuring over 10 languages (responsive and SEO friendly)
• Integrated multiple payment processing services including WorldPay, Braintree,
PayPal and Skrill
• Designed and maintained a MySQL database containing over 5 million images and 200 million keywords
• Implemented a fast multilingual full text engine using Sphinx with multiple filters such
as color and copy space
• Managed a team of content reviewers from all over the globe
• Implemented a CDN service for fast image delivery
• Tech stack: PHP / MySQL / JS+jQuery / HTML / CSS / Smarty / Sphinx / CDN
January 2010 - October 2020 Hungary

Stylehub

Co-founder / Frontend & UI

• Joined Stylehub in 2018 to build the next version of its e-commerce platform
• Co-created Stylehub’s new visual identity
• Designed and developed Stylehub’s new responsive, SEO friendly website
• Coordinated and took part in the design, development and refactoring of Stylehub’s React admin UI and block based website builder
• Built a CSS + JS based modular store template construction framework similar to Bootstrap that radically reduces the time it takes to create a new store theme
• Designed and built 10+ fashion themed, responsive store themes, each featuring my custom JS engine, over 50 content blocks and hundreds of customization options
• Tech stack: JS + React + jQuery / TypeScript / HTML / CSS + SASS / Twig / i18next / Node.js (Gulp, Yarn, etc)
September 2018 - July 2022 Hungary

Moonshiner Gmbh

Senior Frontend Developer

• Lead the frontend development of a cutting-edge sports goods rental app using Next.js for a prominent industry leader
• Developed a robust multi-step reservation and checkout system allowing dynamic user flow adjustments via state machines, driven by UX feedback
• Built a streamlined in-store rental checkout interface empowering store clerks to handle multiple customers simultaneously
• Implemented various drag-and-drop layout editing solutions, allowing store clerks to optimize their workflows for maximum efficiency
• Enhanced and expanded the clients' UI component library, utilized across multiple projects
• Provided mentorship to junior team members
• Tech stack: React / Next.js / Zustand / Redux / RTK / XState / Reakit / Styleguidist / Drag and drop libraries
September 2022 - Austria

Education

University Of Debrecen

Skills

CSS, Graphic Design, HTML, JavaScript, Jquery, MySQL, Next.js, Photography, PHP, React, Redux, UI, Ux,