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backend developer · .NET · end-to-end

Robert Kedves

I build backends — and everything around them. The API, the database, the deploy, and the little robot that automates it.

01About

The story so far

By day I write C#. I work on .NET backends — APIs, data models, background jobs, the unglamorous plumbing everything else depends on. I genuinely like this part: there is something deeply satisfying about a system that just behaves.

After hours I build things for myself — small automations and AI agents that remove friction from my own life. I run a self-hosted LLM (Hermes, from Nous Research) on a personal VPS, and the thing I use most is a Telegram bot wired into it and my finance app: I text it "coffee 3.50" and it parses the message, picks a category, and books the transaction. Small, slightly silly, and it single-handedly saved my budgeting habit.

Away from the keyboard I am usually on my bike or fumbling through a song on the guitar. I also like making things in the physical world — there is a 3D printer humming in the corner that may or may not turn into a real project one day.

02Projects

Things I have built

Stoic Curator

Stoic Curator is a full personal finance tracker I built because every budgeting app I tried either wanted a subscription or my bank credentials. It tracks accounts, categories, monthly budgets and accounting periods — a real multi-user app with proper auth, not a spreadsheet with extra steps. I use it every day.

What I owned

  • Backend — .NET 8 Web API with EF Core and PostgreSQL: multi-tenant data isolation, JWT auth with session invalidation, rate limiting, background email jobs, xUnit test coverage.
  • Frontend — a Vue 3 + TypeScript SPA. Yes, a backend developer wrote a frontend. It went fine.
  • Infrastructure — Dockerized the whole stack and deployed it to a VPS I run myself. When it breaks at 11pm, I am the on-call.
  • Automation — the Telegram bot + AI agent that turns "coffee 3.50" into a categorized transaction, so logging an expense takes three seconds.

Up next on the bench: a small 3D-printing venture. Still more filament than business — watch this space.

03Experience

Where I have worked

Not the straightest line into engineering — sales first, then consulting, then code. I count that as range, not detour: I have sat on both sides of the table that software gets built across.

  1. Apr 2024 → now

    .NET Developer · Industrial Software / Mindsoft Solutions

    Building the enterprise platform I used to write specs for — REST APIs, integrations, and client-specific modules serving 80+ public institutions. I am the person who gets pinged when a query is slow — and honestly, I like it that way.

  2. Jan 2021 → Apr 2024

    IT Consultant / Business Analyst · Industrial Software / Mindsoft Solutions

    Requirements, process mapping, sitting between engineers and stakeholders across 80+ public-institution clients. I learned to translate "the system is broken" into something a sprint can actually act on.

  3. 2015 → 2020

    Sales & Client-Facing Roles · SMC Romania, Alfleth Engineering AG, GripAds

    Before tech: selling industrial equipment and digital services, one client relationship at a time. I learned to listen, to hear "no" without flinching, and to figure out what people actually pay for — still some of the most useful training I have had.

04Contact

Say hi.

No form, no funnel. If you want to talk backends, automation, or argue about budgeting apps — my inbox is open.

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