Live
APOD
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, pulled through the official APOD API — with graceful handling for video days.
Viktor Mészáros
Creative problem solver · AI-assisted builder · Full-stack curiosity · Fast learner
About
Behind the code
I'm Viktor Mészáros, from Csongrád. Since 2021, I've been strengthening the team at MiniCRM Zrt. Over the years, I've worked in several areas, but one thing has always driven me: understanding how systems work behind the scenes and how to make them simpler, faster, or smarter.
I love programming, especially the backend world captivates me completely. Frontend matters, but what truly excites me is what happens under the hood. A well-designed data model, an API, an integration, or an automation is far more interesting to me than the user interface itself.
Perhaps one of my strongest qualities is that I like to look at problems from different angles. I genuinely enjoy tasks that arrive with "this can't be done". That's when my creativity really kicks in. I don't necessarily seek the conventional path—I find the one that works best. Often, those become the most exciting solutions.
The projects on VIKLAB reflect this too. From the outside, they often look like simple applications, but what fascinates me most is what happens in the background. How do different systems communicate? How can meaningful data be extracted from a NASA API? How can a fishing log automatically connect weather data, moon phases, or air pressure? These are the challenges that truly drive me.
Astronomy has been my hobby for a long time. I'm a member of the Hungarian Astronomical Society, so several of my projects connect to this world.
Interests
AI and automation
Backend development
Web development
APIs and system integrations
PHP
MySQL
Journey
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2025 →
MiniCRM | Internal Workflow Specialist & Development Product Owner
Leading internal development for sales, account management, finance and management teams. Designing and prioritizing workflows while staying hands-on with code when needed.
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2024
MiniCRM | Integration Specialist
Assessed customer integration needs, designed system connections, and supported implementation of diverse business process orchestrations.
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2023
MiniCRM | Business Analyst
Built internal and client reports using MySQL, gaining deeper insight into business processes while delivering data-driven analysis.
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2021
MiniCRM | Technical Helpdesk
Deep-dived into system architecture: APIs, webhooks, debugging, integrations, SQL and custom client problem-solving. Strong foundation for later roles.
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Earlier
OKJ Full Stack Training
Foundation in vocational training, then self-taught through countless projects and continuous learning.
Featured project
Fishing Log Suite
A full-stack logging platform for fishing sessions. Every catch automatically captures the weather, GPS position and moon phase of the exact moment — turning a hobby diary into a queryable dataset with charts, personal records and CSV export.
12+
data points captured per catch
4
interactive analytics charts
3
external API integrations
PHP
MySQL
Chart.js
OpenWeather API
Geolocation
Moon phase
Session auth
CSV export
Selected work
Projects
Live tools built for real use — every one of them is running on this server right now.
Live
Near-Earth Asteroids
Today's near-Earth asteroids from NASA's NeoWs database: diameter, velocity, miss distance and hazard flags in a clean table.
Live
Weather
Local weather by browser geolocation, backed by a cached OpenWeather integration to stay fast and inside rate limits.
Live
Recipes
The family cookbook as a web app: AJAX search, ingredient filter, surprise picker and password-gated adding.
Live
Mastermind
The classic code-breaking game with a PHP session engine, AJAX turns and a keyboard-friendly board.
Live
Deep Hook
An arcade fishing game in vanilla JavaScript on a single canvas: steer the hook past mines and divers, chain combos, and climb the Firebase-backed global leaderboard.
Live
Is it Christmas?
A single-purpose classic: tells you whether it's Christmas. Built as a joke, kept for the smiles.
Live
ParentKit
A family admin app for parents: per-child health, education and personal records, a vaccination tracker and calendar-based email reminders — PHP REST API with a Flutter frontend.
Live
TripMate
An AI-native trip planner: parses raw booking confirmations into a unified timeline, flags conflicts and gaps OTAs miss, and drafts full day-by-day itineraries with Claude.
Live
viklab.hu platform
The site you're looking at — a hand-rolled PHP MVC with a custom router, controllers, bilingual i18n and this design system. No frameworks, no build step.
Toolbox
Skills & technologies
The stack I reach for — and the willingness to pick up whatever the next problem needs.
AI
AI-assisted development
Prompt engineering
AI agents & workflows
Claude Code
Process & product
Process development
System integrations
Developer product owner
Requirements refinement
Git & GitHub
Backend
PHP
OOP
MVC architecture
MySQL
REST APIs
PDO
Session auth
Frontend
HTML5
CSS3
JavaScript (ES6+)
Canvas API
Bootstrap 5
Responsive design
Data & APIs
NASA APIs
OpenWeather
Firebase
Chart.js
CSV export
Geolocation
Testing & QA
Manual testing
Test planning
API testing
Regression testing
Bug reporting
Automation
Test automation
Selenium
Task automation
Webhook deploys
CLI scripting
Open source
GitHub activity
A snapshot of my public work. Sample data — live GitHub API integration is prepared.
Viktor Mészáros
@Vickctor
- Repositories
- 8
- Stars
- 11
- Followers
- 6
PHP 58%
JavaScript 22%
CSS 15%
HTML 5%
312 contributions in the last year
VikLab
This site: hand-rolled PHP MVC platform with live demo apps.
FishingFull-stack fishing log web app: weather, GPS and moon-phase capture, analytics and CSV export.
fishgameDeep Hook — an arcade fishing game on a single canvas with a Firebase leaderboard.
Recent activity
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VikLabsplit the fishing suite into its own repo 2 days ago -
VikLabadd BB-8 theme toggle + Uiverse controls last week -
Fishinganalytics dashboard with CSV export 2 weeks ago -
fishgameDeep Hook leaderboard via Firebase last month
Contact
Let's build something reliable.
I'm happy to talk about new tech, weird problems to solve, web projects — or fishing.