Albert Major on an Italian street at sunset

Albert Major is a creative developer

currently building StillTabs.

Work

App Store screenshot: “Tiles grow with your screen time”
App Store screenshot: “We take out the addictive parts” — Reels struck out of Instagram
The StillTabs app icon on an iPhone home screen
App Store screenshot: “Replace your apps, get a calmer experience”
App Store screenshot: “You decide how strict it gets”

StillTabs

iOS app and browser extension · 2025–present

Screen-time blockers punish you for using the internet, so people delete them. StillTabs blocks nothing. It loads YouTube, Instagram, X, Reddit and Facebook inside native WebViews and strips out the parts engineered to keep you scrolling — infinite feeds, autoplay, Reels, Shorts, algorithmic recommendations — while leaving your messages, your friends’ posts and the video you actually searched for exactly where they were.

I designed and built nearly all of it: the React Native app, the per-platform injection layer, a launcher whose tiles resize to match your real usage, a five-account switcher with isolated cookie stores, a home-screen widget, and the design system underneath. Everything runs on device — no servers, no telemetry, nothing collected.

I brought in Cesare, Sophie and Mina for the video work and set up how that side runs. The App Store screenshots are mine.

The StillTabs team: Albert, Cesare, Sophie and Mina

Shipped to the App Store at v1.2, after around 350 commits over five months.

stilltabs.com

Music from brainwaves

First prize, Programming & Arts · 2025

A system that turns EEG brainwave data into music as it is being recorded. I started the project, wrote the programming for the live audio synthesis, directed the creative direction and produced the final submission video. It took first prize in the Programming & Arts category of an international hackathon with more than 800 participants, and was picked up by my faculty.

Featured by the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences

CSAI Summaries

Open-source study resource · 2024–present

Lecture, book and course summaries for the Cognitive Science and AI programme at Tilburg, written mostly by me and open to contributions from anyone else on the course. Past 5,000 views from within the programme.

Read it

Home studio: stage keyboard, guitars, audio interface and a laptop running a session

Beto Beats

Audio plug-ins and the records made with them · 2020–present

I write cross-platform audio plug-ins — instruments and effects in VST3 and AU formats — in C++ using JUCE. That means DSP algorithms for real-time audio, low-latency buffer management and parameter automation, interfaces built on JUCE’s component system, and code-signed universal binaries that hold up across DAWs on Intel, Apple Silicon and Windows.

The same name releases music. I produce, design sound kits and work with recording artists. The two halves are not separate jobs — I build the tools and then go and use them.

Music

Six tracks I produced, filmed as they were made. Click a waveform to play one.

Untitled 01

Education

B.Sc. Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
Tilburg University, expected 2027

High School Diploma
Lauder Javne School, Budapest, 2015–2022
Advanced Matura examinations in Computer Science, English, Economics and Mathematics.

Experience

Web Development & Information Literacy Student Assistant
Tilburg University, 2025–present

Mortgage Banking Intern
MBH Bank, Budapest, 2025
I built large-scale Python data pipelines with Selenium web scraping and browser automation, collecting and processing property market data for the bank’s internal valuation models. I designed the whole workflow myself, including the cleaning, transformation and validation routines, and documented it so it could be maintained after I left. It cut the manual data handling substantially.

Founder
StillTabs, 2025–present  ·  Beto Beats, 2020–present

Web Developer
Remote, 2022–2023

Awards

International hackathon, first prize, 2025
Programming & Arts category, 800+ participants
For generating music in real time from EEG brainwave data

Skills

Hungarian and English fluently, basic Dutch. Python and R, HTML and CSS, C++ with JUCE. Figma, Webflow, Shopify and Stripe. Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Albert Major on a bridge over an Amsterdam canal at dusk

Contact

a.z.major@tilburguniversity.edu
albert-mjr on LinkedIn