§ about · the founder

Patrik P. Süli

software architectai engineerphd candidatefounder of kengutech
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§01/ bio

Two careers, one engineer.

A decade of professional software development, mostly on the JVM: Spring Boot, Quarkus, modern Java (currently on 25), and the kind of microservice architecture that has to survive being on-call. Today that experience runs through KenguTech, the studio I founded in 2022 to take on production engagements where seniority actually matters.

Alongside the studio, I'm a PhD candidate at Obuda University's Doctoral School of Applied Informatics and Applied Mathematics, and an Assistant Lecturer at the John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics. My research sits at the intersection of large language models and applied science: agentic systems for research workflows, LLM-as-judge auditing, and neuro-symbolic approaches. The publications are listed under Research.

The two careers don't compete; they sharpen each other. The engineering side keeps the research honest about what actually ships. The research side keeps the engineering honest about what we're claiming.

§02/ experience

Worked at.

  1. Sep 2026 – Present
    HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research (ATK)Software Architect · AI Engineer

    Architecting research informatics for plant breeding and crop science at the HUN-REN Agricultural Research Centre in Martonvásár: modernising the scientific software and data infrastructure and embedding LLM and machine learning capabilities into the research workflow.

  2. Dec 2022 – Present
    KenguTechSoftware Architect · Founder

    Founded the studio and lead time-and-materials engagements end-to-end: architecture, hands-on delivery, and operational ownership. Specialised in enterprise-grade Java microservice systems sized for millions of requests, alongside applied LLM solutions.

  3. Aug 2024 – Present
    Obuda University · John von Neumann Faculty of InformaticsAssistant Lecturer & Researcher

    Teach and supervise at the Biomatics and Applied AI Institute alongside an active research agenda. Focus areas: applied large language models, agentic systems for scientific workflow, and LLM evaluation methodology.

  4. Jan 2018 – Nov 2022
    FreelanceSoftware Developer · Consultant

    Nearly five years of independent and contract delivery across Java (Spring Boot, Quarkus), TypeScript (NestJS, Angular), with occasional C# work. Across the engagements I shipped microservice backends, full-stack products, and the CI/CD pipelines and environments around them, often serving as the de-facto DevOps engineer too.

  5. Jul 2016 – Jun 2019
    NETI IT Consulting Ltd.
    • Software DeveloperMar 2017 – Jun 2019

      Delivered cross-platform C++ desktop applications on the Qt framework, then moved into full-stack development on the company's flagship product line with JavaFX and Spring Boot.

    • Trainee DeveloperJul 2016 – Mar 2017

      First professional role. Contributed production features to a graph-designer application in C++ with the Qt framework as part of the platform team.

§03/ education

Studied at.

Ph.D.Applied InformaticsObuda University · Doctoral School of Applied Informatics & Applied Mathematics2024 – 2028
M.Sc.Computer ScienceEötvös Loránd University2022 – 2024
B.Sc.Computer Science EngineeringJohn von Neumann University2013 – 2017
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