Motasem AbuBaraka
Freelance Full-Stack Developer · Budapest, Hungary
Full-stack developer, Budapest. BSc Computer Science, ELTE, with distinction. I build products whole — interface, API, data — and keep them running after they ship. Mostly React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node and MongoDB. Taking freelance work.
Experience
Founder & Full-Stack Software Engineer
2025 — Now
LaSu — AI Language Support·Budapest, Hungary
Built LaSu and still ship it: a Manifest V3 extension and a Next.js app, from the streaming translation API to the Stripe webhooks.
- Next.js
- Chrome Extension
- OpenAI API
- MongoDB
Web Development Intern
2025 — 2026
Lime Light Renhold AS·Oslo, Norway (Remote)
350 hours on a remote Agile team. Responsive front-ends, shipped through review.
- HTML5
- SASS
- Bootstrap
- Agile
Freelance Full-Stack Developer
2024 — Now
Independent·Budapest, Hungary (Remote)
Full-stack builds for clients: auth, admin dashboards, the integrations that make a site somebody's own.
- Next.js
- Node.js
- MongoDB
- Auth
Selected work
LaSu — Learn Languages As You Browse
2025 — 2026
Translation that lives inside the page you are reading. Two clients, one wire format, and an answer that arrives while it is still being written.
IGFocus — Instagram, On Your Terms
2025 — 2026
Instagram, taken apart from the inside. Thirty-seven switches, no server, no tracking.
Education
BSc Computer Science
Sep 2022 — Jul 2026
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)·Budapest, Hungary
Excellent (Jeles), 4.51 / 5. The thesis was LaSu — handed in as a product, not a paper.
Stack
- Frontend
- Next.js · React · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · Framer Motion · Zustand
- Backend & APIs
- Node.js · Express · NextAuth.js · Stripe · Server-Sent Events · OpenAI API
- Data & Infra
- MongoDB · Mongoose · Redis · Edge Middleware · Vercel · Git
- Browser extensions
- Chrome Extensions · Service Workers · Shadow DOM · declarativeNetRequest · WebSocket
Languages
- ArabicNative
- EnglishFluent
- HungarianConversational