Hello Hashnode Community - I am Miki Szeles from Hungary

I am an enthusiastic developer since my childhood. I have started with Plus 4 and C 16 machines programming in Basic. I still remember when we were jumping on the bed with my brother, and accidentally saw the Commodore 64 computer on the top of the wardrobe, which was planned to be a Christmas gift for us. I don't have to tell you that we couldn't wait till then. :) I will never forget this memory. Of course in the beginning we only played on the computer, but later I became interested in how can I make my own programs. I have to tell when I first faced the binary number system I did not understand it, but I was still able to draw some sprites on the screen. :)
I continued learning software development during grammar school. I got my Masters degree at the Budapest University of Economics and Technology where I learnt many languages and also learnt a lot about general software development theory and practice.
I have started my professional career as a C++/C# developer, but I switched to Java after a few years. I've visited many meetups and Code Retreats during this time and I've learnt and introduced Agile methodologies in our company. During the years I lead the development team in close cooperation with the product management and testing department.
In 2020 I felt I need something new and I turned towards test automation both API and UI. I did not regret my decision. Since then I tried many frameworks like RestArrured, Selenium, Protractor, Appium, Selenide and Karate.
At the moment I am working as a Senior Software Developer in Test using Selenium and Selenide for UI testing and Karate for API testing.
I believe knowledge sharing is very important, so apart from helping my colleagues work I started my technical blog recently: https://mszeles.com Sharing your knowledge provides many ways for your own development. Whenever I write an article many questions come into my mind which might be interesting for the readers, so I try to answer all of them in my posts. Doing this I learn a lot about the subject. In additionally sharing your knowledge gives a good opportunity for feedback based on which you can further improve.
Hello Hashnode Community🖐
I am Miklós(Miki) Szeles from Hungary and I am here for 3 reasons:
- Learn from you
- Share my knowledge
- Entertain you
Learn from you
I have already learned a lot from you since I started using the Hashnode platform a few weeks ago. I wanted to list some of the articles, but in the end, I couldn't choose which one, as all of them are pretty valuable. So here is the complete list of Hashnode articles that I found useful in any way:
Content creation and networking
- Great writing is iterative - Jake LaCaze
- On The Topic of Creating Content - Alex Kates
- Networking Tips for Developers </> - Anosh Bhakare
- How Beginner Developers Improve their Online Presence Strategy and Achieve growth - Wampamba David
Self development and productivity tips
- A Success Mindset For Your Career and Life as a Developer - John Amiscaray
- Accomplishments != Identity - Mohamed Najiullah
- 8 Useful Tools To Increase Productivity And Make Your Life Easy! - TigerNinja
- February Good Read: The Dip by Seth Godin (Book Gist) - Mridu Bhatnagar
Testing
- How to add end-to-end tests to a project - Marcin Wosinek
- Automation Testing: Explain Like I'm five - Abhiraj Bhowmick
SEO
- Which is the best free keyword ranking tool with latest features? - Richard Fernando
- 3 How To Optimize Content To Be More Seo Friendly - Cici Amalia
Software development and related technologies
- Introduction to Appwrite cloud functions - writie your first cloud function with nodejs - Bence Hornyák
- Everything you need to know about Go-Lang - #1 - Geek Tech
- How Twitter generates millions of unique ids per second? - Sagar Sengupta
- Terms used in Kubernetes - explained - Shajith
- A (quick) Technical Breakdown Of SSL/TLS - Eduard Draghiciu
Fellow developers who just started blogging on Hashnode just like me
- hello hashnode : Who am I? - Vinamra Jain
- Allow Me To (Re)Introduce Myself - My Name is Moon! - Mahmoud Shabana
Hashnode
And I am pretty sure there are plenty of great articles that I missed. Actually, I will make this a habit, so from time to time, I will share the list of articles I found useful here on Hashnode.
Share my knowledge
Knowledge sharing is very important according to my opinion, that is why I started using Hashnode, as I heard it is a great platform to reach other developers. So let's see what I have which might be valuable to you.
- I have more than 15 years of experience in Software Development from which one year is specialized in Test Automation.
- I have a few years of experience in writing what I got writing my personal blog and posting to my photographer Facebook page.
- I also have some experience in personal brand and community building.
So you can expect me to write technical articles about these topics. Follow me in case you are interested in any.
Entertain you
Well, I have my own sense of humour which you might or might not like. I cannot do anything about that, and I don't want to either. From time to time in addition to technical articles, I will write personal stories about the human side of being a software developer. Some of them will be light, but others might go deeper.
Thanks for reading my introduction. I am happy to be here. In case you would like to know more about me, just read my bio, or drop me a message via LinkedIn, I will happily answer it.
Hello Hashnode Community - I am happy to be here. 😊




