About Zsolt
English
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Hungarian
Native or bilingual
Romanian
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Experience
- BinX Zrt.Agile Coach / Scrum MasterBANKING AND INSURANCEJanuary 2026 - June 2026 (5 months)Budapest, HungaryBinX is a fintech company providing innovative neobanking services for entrepreneurs. Led agile transformation and coaching for their 30+ person multi-platform (iOS, Android, Web) software and product developmentdepartment experiencing delivery disruption and organizational dysfunction.• • Mentored development teams on the Scrum framework: proper use of Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, and Sprint Review — shifting from ceremony compliance to genuine inspect-and-adapt cycles.• • Introduced Definition of Ready (DoR) criteria and structured backlog refinement, eliminating unprepared work from entering sprints and improving planning predictability.• • Rolled out consistent Jira practices: finer task breakdown, transparent backlog and sprint boards —increasing visibility for both development teams and management.• • Established flow metrics tracking (cycle time, throughput, cumulative flow diagrams) to surface bottlenecks and enable data-driven improvement conversations.• • Diagnosed a critical meeting dysfunction: 40+ colleagues were attending development team daily standups and plannings, causing psychological unsafety, information overload, and sprint disruptions. Restructured meetings to include only directly involved participants, then designed dedicated stakeholder visibility forums — eliminating the root-cause information deficit and reducing sprint disruptions significantly.• • Embedded regular retrospectives, building a continuous improvement culture where teams own their own ways of working.
- TopDeskScrum MasterSOFTWARE PUBLISHINGNovember 2020 - October 2025 (4 years and 11 months)Budapest, HungaryScrum Master for international SaaS product teams developing a cloud-based IT service management platform used by thousands of enterprise customers worldwide — requiring high reliability, quality standards, and continuous delivery.• • Coached and mentored two 10-person development teams from low agile maturity to high-performing, self-managing units — recognized by peers: "A professional Scrum Master is there to understand thedynamics, the partially said sentences, to further challenge the team, to nurture them on their own path — Zsolt delivers all of these." (Balázs Schaffhauser, Agile Coach, TOPdesk)• • Assessed agile maturity continuously and designed iterative interventions: improving team autonomy, cross-team collaboration, and value-focused delivery mindset.• • Transformed Sprint Reviews from internal check-ins into structured stakeholder engagement sessions with active feedback loops — giving non-technical stakeholders meaningful visibility without disrupting team focus.• • Designed and delivered company-wide agile and soft-skills training programs (feedback culture, collaboration, agility principles) for the entire Hungarian branch — building organizational agile capability beyond individual teams.• • Mentored junior Scrum Masters and Product Owners, including practical coaching on facilitation, stakeholder management, and self-organization.• • Led a successful framework transition from Scrum to Kanban with fluid team composition to meet a critical product deadline — demonstrating pragmatic framework selection over dogma.• • Established cross-team working agreements that reduced inter-team friction, improved handovers, and clarified shared responsibilities across interdependent product components.
- GPS Tuner Systems Kft.Senior IT Project Manager / Scrum MasterDIGITAL AND ITJuly 2017 - October 2020 (3 years and 3 months)Budapest, HungaryLed delivery of cross-functional web and mobile development initiatives, including a smart EV navigation routing product — a complex solution integrating real-time charging infrastructure data.• • Introduced Scrum and Kanban practices from scratch — daily standups, backlog refinement, and retrospectives — in a team with no prior agile experience. Acted as agile evangelist and internal trainer.• • Standardized Jira usage to improve backlog transparency, sprint tracking, and cross-stakeholder reporting.• • Mentored team members on agile ways of working, fostering ownership and continuous improvement habits.
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Education
- PSM IIScrum.org2024Advanced Professional Scrum Master Certificate
- MScBabeș-Bolyai UniversityMSc