David LeonardNagy
Founding Engineer & CTO | AI Researcher
specializing in RL, NLP, and Transformers
Computer Science @ NWMSU · GPA 4.0
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About Me
I'm an undergraduate Computer Science student and ML Engineer with 9+ years of programming experience and two International Olympiad in AI (IOAI) medals. My research focuses on reinforcement learning, NLP, and transformer architectures. I have hands-on experience shipping ML systems from research through full-stack and cloud deployment, most recently as the founding engineer of an early-stage AI startup.
Research Areas
Reinforcement Learning, NLP
Technical Focus
AI Systems, Cloud Architecture
Location
Maryville, Missouri, USA
Education
Northwest Missouri State University
Work Experience
Founder & CTO
Jun 2026 - Aug 2026SynthinAI
Budapest, Hungary
- Founded and lead technical development of a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platform that measures how businesses are represented in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini answers.
- Built the core measurement pipeline that logs repeated, verbatim LLM answers to real buyer questions and extracts mention rate, ranking position, sentiment/stance, and citation signals for competitive benchmarking.
- Closed the company's first paying client.
- Own product and technical direction end-to-end, from architecture through client delivery.
Hungarian IOAI Team Coach
2026Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Budapest, Hungary
- Mentored and coached the Hungarian national team for the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI).
- Team achieved 2 Silver Medals at IOAI 2026.
Research & Projects
VectorShake (2025)
A few-shot NLP framework enhancing transformer generalization via latent-space regularization and dynamic adaptive curriculum. Published research at ELTE.
Project Horizon
Founded a student IT modernization initiative and shipped a mobile app to both Play Store and App Store.
More Projects
Ecotorch
A lightweight, plug-and-play tool to measure the ecological impact and efficiency of PyTorch models.
G-NDI
An ongoing novel research project focused on a causal approach to layer importance and model pruning.
Self-Hosted AI Assistant
Maintains a self-hosted AI assistant (Proxmox, Ollama) integrated with home automation, media management, and productivity tooling on personal infrastructure.
Financial Simulator
Python-based algorithmic trading simulator with consistent results on Fortune 500 data. Implements various trading strategies and backtesting.
Skills
9+ years of programming experience
IOAI Silver & Bronze Medalist
Founding Engineer & CTO at SynthinAI
Published Research (TDK Thesis)
Programming Languages
AI & Machine Learning
Web & Cloud
Infrastructure & Tools
Tools & OS
Achievements
Bronze Medal, Aug 2025
International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence | Beijing, China
Silver Medal, Aug 2024
International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence | Burgas, Bulgaria
President's Honor Roll
Northwest Missouri State University | 4.0 GPA
National Champion
Sports - Goalkeeper, Floorball Olympiad
Academic Excellence
Scholarship for Outstanding Performance in High School
Education
Northwest Missouri State University
Maryville, Missouri, USA
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Aug 2025 - May 2029 (Expected)
GPA: 4.0/4.0 - President's Honor Roll. Focus on AI, Reinforcement Learning, and NLP.
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Budapest, Hungary
Independent Research
Mar 2025 - Jun 2025
TDK Thesis: Vectorshake - Few-shot NLP Framework improving transformer generalization. Matched SOTA accuracy while cutting training time by 40x.
Apáczai Csere János High School
Budapest, Hungary
High School Diploma
2019-2025
Graduated with GPA: 4.0/4.0 - Specialized in Mathematics and Computer Science