Peter Hamza
Senior Frontend Developer
HungaryHey 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.
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
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• 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
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Austria
Education
University Of Debrecen
Skills
CSS,
Graphic Design,
HTML,
JavaScript,
Jquery,
MySQL,
Next.js,
Photography,
PHP,
React,
Redux,
UI,
Ux,