Kristi Buda

AI engineering firm that unlocks hidden capacity in businesses by replacing manual workflows and operational bottlenecks with custom-built intelligent systems.

• Designed and built real-time collaboration engines enabling conflict-free concurrent editing across distributed user bases.
• Architected high-throughput, high-concurrency services for fintech, engineered to handle massive traffic spikes under heavy load.
• Built agentic AI integrations, embedding autonomous agents into client workflows to automate complex multi-step processes.

AI platform transforming how humans acquire, structure, and interpret biomedical knowledge across large-scale scientific datasets.

• Built the core platform for large-scale scientific data extraction using streaming, agent-driven pipelines with parallel LLM processing to ingest and structure heterogeneous research datasets.
• Delivered the end-to-end pilot in direct partnership with one of the world's largest biotechnology organisations, entrusted with multi-billion-dollar proprietary research datasets.
• Led delivery of cloud-agnostic private infrastructure across multiple isolated environments for secure automated multi-cloud deployments.
• Led a team of 8 engineers across Data, Application Engineering, and DevOps with an average experience of 15 years.
• Transformed releases from 2 per week to daily, eventually achieving fully automated Continuous Delivery.
• Built hiring pipelines for Agentic Engineering, evaluating applicants on autonomous systems design and applied LLM delivery capability.
• Hands-on across all domains, coding IAM services, data extraction pipelines, and infrastructure alongside NLP engineers.

Open-source SDK enabling world-class companies to build infinite canvas applications with real-time multiplayer capabilities.

• Owned the full engineering function, reporting directly to the CEO.
• Built end-to-end engineering processes from scratch, transforming a processless environment into a high-performance delivery team.
• Contributed directly to the core product, shipping user-facing features alongside the team.
• Built internal data infrastructure and ETL pipelines powering insights across the company.

AI platform for freight forwarders and customs brokers, automating document processing, finance workflows, and customer operations.

• Led and scaled an engineering team from early stage to 30+.
• Headed the Research and Development department, driving the company's technical innovation strategy.
• Scaled the Vision team from a research experiment to a core company pillar.
• Built a data processing pipeline handling millions of records daily for multiple organisations.
• Designed and built a high-performance, event-driven microservice architecture for ETL across teams.
• Implemented a multi-database querying system spanning multiple PostgreSQL instances and an in-app search engine.

Smart Governance Platform for cities and towns, helping mayors, treasurers, and department heads make smart decisions with better data.

• Built an advanced dashboard builder used by data analysts across German municipalities.
• Engineered the desktop app architecture (Electron) and the platform's frontend foundation.
• Developed a custom state management library serving as the platform's core data bridge.

Virtual Social Media Superhero for scheduling and analyzing posts across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.

• Built the frontend architecture and component system from the ground up.
• Designed the product UI and company branding.

Built products end-to-end across social media, fintech, enterprise SaaS, e-commerce, and non-profit sectors, working with organisations ranging from early-stage startups to companies like Siemens, Universal Music, and MyMuesli.

• Lead engineer across multiple platforms, designing and implementing core architectures from the ground up.
• Built custom search engines, state management solutions, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling.
• Designed user interfaces and brand identities, bridging engineering and design.

Albania's oldest and largest public university. The ICT program is designed to equip students with practical system implementation and a comprehensive understanding of computer technology.

Partnership using open data to address societal challenges and reach net-zero goals.

• Designed a secure data architecture combining 8 different data sources.
• Conducted deep analysis on energy usage in public buildings.
• Developed a no-code data tool to assess power availability and calculate CO2 emissions reduction per school.

Interactive access to hundreds of award-winning picture books via video chat.

• Built the front-end and mobile architecture.
• Led development and built a custom book reader.

2-day hackathon engaging young engineers in finding solutions for current problems.

• Served as tech consultant, reviewed solutions, and awarded winning teams.
• Presented on "How to build better UX based on data."

Digital wallet for loyalty cards.

• Developed the company website, created CMS, and built custom component localization.

Customized web and mobile solutions through cutting-edge technologies.

• Guided technical direction, crafted user interfaces, and engineered architectural solutions for diverse clients.

Talked about building faster React applications at OSCAL. Presented a gentle introduction to WebAssembly at SFK19.