Ilona Budapesti
Managing Partner at Aware Partners
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIlona Budapesti is a multilingual product and fintech leader with 12 years of enterprise technology product experience and over 18 years in finance and startups, now leading Aware Partners as Managing Partner from San Jose. She blends operator rigor—having scaled a PayPal service to 100M MAUs and led Rakuten product teams with multibillion-dollar impact—with entrepreneurial exits (founder of profitable SaaS ventures including 1 Million Women To Tech). Equally comfortable in boardrooms and at the podium, she’s keynote speaker at Oxford, Tsinghua and Stanford events and fluent across eight languages with working knowledge of 14 more. Her hands-on technical chops include full‑stack contributions to community tooling and Python-based NLP problem solving on GitHub, reflecting a builder’s mindset alongside VC/PE scouting and angel investing. Fiercely execution-oriented, she excels at integrating product, legal and finance functions to deliver scalable, inclusive fintech solutions across global markets.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese Language, Chinese Language at Tsinghua UniversityInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Li Po Chun United World College of Hong KongMSt Machine Learning Buddhist Studies Distinction, MSt Machine Learning Buddhist Studies Distinction at University of OxfordEMBA Venture Capital and Private Equity, EMBA Venture Capital and Private Equity at Columbia Business SchoolStudy Abroad, Study Abroad at Fudan UniversityAB Computer Science Linguistics Honors, AB Computer Science Linguistics Honors at Harvard UniversityVisiting Research Fellow, Visiting Research Fellow at Stanford University
English, Hungarian, Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, pāli, Tibetan, asl
Stackoverflow
903reputation
39kreached
4answers
2questions
bitbucket
top-5%
Github Skills (16)
text-manipulation10
regular-expression10
regex10
python10
natural-language-processing9
bitbucket9
nlp9
json6
ajax6
algorithm6
datetime6
datetime-format6
javascript6
bitbucket-api6
jquery6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
1millionwomentotech/toolkitten
Jun 2018 - May 2019
A toolkit for #1millionwomentotech community.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:162 commits, 128 PRs, 72 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ilona primarily contributed to solving Python Challenge problems, demonstrating a focus on both backend and frontend aspects. They implemented solutions using Python, including features such as string manipulation, string.maketrans(), and urllib.request. Their work involved analyzing and transforming text data, indicating an understanding of basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts.
community-managementtoolkittechnical-writing
ilonabudapesti/buddhism-nlp
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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