BONVO

About

The architect behind Bonvo.

Bonvo Consulting is the practice of Gergely Kovács — senior engineer, systems architect, and co-founder — based in Budapest, working worldwide.

Gergely Kovácshas spent ten years taking ownership of systems other people were afraid to touch. He started in large-scale eCommerce — four years on a 130,000-product Magento catalog — then co-founded and led Venturi Systems, an AI-driven urban traffic optimisation company that won two B2G contracts and optimised intersections across three Hungarian municipalities. He built data platforms for WHO and UNICEF stakeholders at Pulilab, shipping an OpenAI-powered production system before ChatGPT existed. Since 2023 he has been Senior Engineer for Architecture & Platform on a contract-intelligence platform serving governmental, defence, and infrastructure clients — where he replaced a legacy job system live, commands production incidents, files pre-disclosure security research, and runs the applied-AI practice.

In 2026 he founded Bonvo Consulting to do that work for more than one company at a time.

Gergely Kovács, founder and principal architect of Bonvo Consulting
Gergely Kovács · Budapest

Philosophy

“I think in subsystems and rewrites, not patches.”

The philosophy is ownership. Not advice delivered from a safe distance, but responsibility for the subsystem, the migration, the deadline — held until the system is stable and the team can run it alone. Immediate action, executed with a long-term vision.

Facts

The record, in brief.

LOCATION
Budapest, Hungary (CET) · remote-first, worldwide
LANGUAGES
Hungarian (native) · Ukrainian (native) · English (bilingual proficiency) · Russian (fluent)
EDUCATION
BSc Mechatronics, Robotics & Automation Engineering, University of Debrecen (2015–2019)
EXPERIENCE
10+ years · eCommerce → GovTech founder → health data (WHO/UNICEF stakeholders) → contract intelligence (gov/defence/infrastructure)
CORE STACK
Python (expert, 10+ yrs) · TypeScript · Django · Celery · React/Next.js · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kubernetes · Terraform · GCP/AWS/Azure
AI PRACTICE
Claude Code · MCP servers · LLM chains & agents · AI-assisted CI/CD
LINKS
linkedin.com/in/kovacsgeri

Trajectory

A decade across domains.

eCommerce to founder to health-data to GovTech to consulting — each step compounding into the practice Bonvo is today.

  1. 2015eCommerce

    UNDEFASA · Magento Developer

    Large-scale commerce — a 130,000-product catalog, checkout & shipping.

  2. 2018AI · Mobility · B2G

    Venturi Systems · Co-Founder & CEO

    AI urban-traffic optimization; 2 B2G contracts, 16 intersections deployed.

  3. 2021Health · Public Sector

    Pulilab · Back End Developer

    Data platforms for WHO & UNICEF stakeholders; 20k+ clinics, LLM pre-ChatGPT.

  4. 2023GovTech · Defence

    Affinitext · Senior Engineer, Architecture

    Contract intelligence for gov/defence; zero-downtime migration, security, AI practice.

  5. 2026Consulting

    Bonvo Consulting · Founder · Principal Architect

    The practice — senior architectural ownership for more than one company at a time.

The evidence

Built across every domain Bonvo claims.

This isn't a pitch deck. A git-history scan of 162 of Gergely's own repositories maps the range the practice actually draws on — grouped by domain, sized by the number of projects.

Domains delivered · 162 repositories8 segments
  • Maps, Ski & Mobility
    30
  • Mobile & Native Apps
    30
  • Crypto & Fintech
    27
  • AI & Agents
    18
  • R&D & Prototyping
    25
  • GovTech & Platform
    12
  • Commerce & Web
    10
  • Media & Content
    10

— Selected shipped projects

The Name

Why “Bonvo”.

Bonvo is a name Gergely has already shipped under: Bonvo Ski Maps, an offline 3D ski-map product covering 1,400+ resorts — ~138,000 hand-written lines of code, built solo. The consulting practice shares the name and the standard: minimalist, precise, engineered to work when it matters. Different products, one bar.

Reach

Central Europe, natively. The world, fluently.

Bonvo operates from Budapest with native Hungarian and Ukrainian, fluent Russian, and bilingual-level English. For US and UK companies, that means senior European engineering capacity with full-overlap communication in English. For companies operating across Central and Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet region, it means an architect who reads the codebase and the room — no translation layer.

The practice scales

One architect accountable. A team when the job needs it.

Bonvo is led hands-on by one senior architect. But you are never limited to one pair of hands: the practice scales a vetted senior team up to the size a job requires — and back down when it's done — without ever changing who owns the outcome.

01

One accountable owner

Every engagement is owned end to end by Gergely Kovács — the architect who does the work, commands the incident, and signs off on the result. That never changes.

02

A senior bench, on demand

When a build needs more hands, Bonvo assembles a vetted team of senior engineers scaled to the job — from a solo rescue to a full squad — and stands it down when the work is done.

03

No bench-warming, no dilution

You pay for the size the problem needs, not a fixed team. The standard stays senior; the outcome stays owned by one person.

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