Borbála Szilágyi

About

10 years writing code, 4+ in industry, and 2+ leading an engineering team. I moved from engineering into leadership in 2024, bringing the technical grounding with me and the same focus on people. Three things shape how I work: building real teams where people are partners, not just coworkers; picking up new tools by making something with them; and figuring out where AI-assisted development actually earns its place in production code.

BSc + MSc Computer Science and Engineering at BME (2017–2023). MBA in Finance and Management at ELTE (2023–2025). Teaching Assistant for Formal Methods at BME, Spring 2022.

Leadership

Team lead at Prolan since 2024, running a cross-functional Scrum team of 4 engineers across 4 products in a safety-critical environment. Still hands-on with code review and shipping.

Beyond the delivery, what I care about is the atmosphere — a team people actually want to show up to. High trust, disagreements aired out loud, ownership on whoever is closest to the problem. Room for creativity, for new ideas, and for trying a technique that hasn't proved itself yet — that's where the best work comes from, and where new tools like AI-assisted development get an honest shot at production.

380+ tickets resolved in 2025

<24h PR → merge cycle

+30% delivery uplift from AI

4 products end-to-end

0 attrition since 2024

• Owns the architectural calls across 4 products in active development — tech stack, integration boundaries, rewrite-vs-refactor decisions.
• Rolled out AI tooling (Claude Code, ChatGPT/Codex) on the team in 2025.
• Strengthening cross-team collaboration through recurring meetings with adjacent teams, shared working norms, and broader internal-tool adoption.
• Supervising a Master's thesis. Mentoring interns.

Engineering

4 active products across rail and manufacturing. Java on the backend, React on the frontend.

• Titanium Web

  End-to-end component and inventory management for manufacturing and production environments. Took over a half-finished modernization, retired the legacy alongside it, and reworked the permission model.

  Java · Spring · Postgres · Vaadin · Maven · Docker · React · TypeScript

• WebDiag Web

  Real-time diagnostics, data collection, fault analysis, and reporting for safety-critical railway signalling stations. Runs in production.

  Java · Spring · Postgres · Maven · Docker · React · TypeScript

• DisCom Desktop + Web

  Cross-border railway communication that translates a fixed operational phrasebook between languages. Deployed as a desktop client; a web variant is in the works.

  Java · Swing · Node.js · Express.js · React · Postgres · Maven · Docker

• ProrisCAD Desktop

  Model-driven designer for railway signalling systems. Engineers model the signalling logic graphically; the tool generates the deployable parameterisation. Main architect for years — feature direction, framework calls, and the day-to-day shape of the tool.

  Java · Eclipse Modeling Framework · Maven · Ecore/Xcore · Xtext/Xtend · Graphiti

Elsewhere

Side projects and recent writings — where I experiment with new tools and ideas on my own time.

Projects

Writings