Gergely Gazda

Front End Developer

Gergely works where technology meets institutions. He trained in sociology as well as engineering, which means he treats social systems and technical ones as the same problem - useful in a field where the software is the democratic process. At Sortition he ships that software: he builds and maintains the tools behind our democratic lotteries, and helps work out what those tools should do in the first place.

Outside Sortition he runs Codenzyme, his own civic tech consultancy, and has advised the UN-endorsed Digital Public Goods Alliance, co-founded by UNICEF, on open-source infrastructure. Earlier work includes a social services data and case management pilot with the Municipality of Budapest, and accessibility consulting on the budapest.hu redesign alongside Disabled People's Organisations.

He used to call this being a developer. Since the AI arrived nobody seems sure what to call it, but the software still has to work, which is the part he's actually responsible for.