Blog — Biró István | Systems Engineering
Writing on systems engineering, AI-assisted development, and building things at the intersection of hardware and software. Posts are infrequent and long-form — no schedule, no padding. I write when I have something genuinely useful to say.
- Systems Engineering
- Requirements engineering, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), system architecture, and verification and validation. Drawn from practice in automotive E/E at Bosch and Jaguar Land Rover — real tooling (IBM DOORS, MSOSA, 3DEXPERIENCE), real project constraints, and the gap between what engineering standards prescribe and what teams actually do on a deadline. Practical work includes requirement decomposition from system to component level, interface specifications, and traceability coverage analysis — disciplines where tooling often lags behind engineering need.
- AI-Governed Development
- Designing workflows where AI agents implement and humans govern. The model: committed specifications in version control, implementation agents on isolated branches, verified artefacts, and human sign-off at every merge gate. This site is a working demonstration — every line of code was agent-generated from committed specifications, every decision is in the register. The governance toolkit behind this site is an example of that model in practice: specifications are committed before dispatch, branches stay isolated, and nothing reaches main without a human gate.
- Building & Making
- Hardware design, additive manufacturing, FEA and simulation, and small-series production — work from BWEngineering, the engineering studio I run alongside the day job. From concept to physical artefact, without outsourcing the understanding. Projects span early-concept validation through production-intent designs, with process documentation that makes decisions reproducible and failures instructive.
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Elfojtott könnyek szobra: engineering a human-scale outdoor sculpture in PETG
How BWEngineering built a permanent outdoor sculpture from 3D-printed PETG — hollow-body construction with a plaster core, weatherproofing for the Danube embankment, and the print logistics of a human-sized piece.
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SCItation: structured agentic development on a problem that actually mattered
How building an open-source citation pattern auditor became a forcing function for learning structured agentic development with Claude Code — and why it worked.
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SMOS: A Semantic Memory Layer for Claude
I built SMOS — a local MCP server that gives Claude persistent semantic memory across sessions, compressing codebase knowledge by 51× with no factual loss.
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Building this site with a governance toolkit
How this portfolio is built: a static Eleventy site, authored through a partner-and-governor workflow with an AI implementation agent.