About
Bálint Terjék
I build and govern IT operations inside the environments where it's hardest to do well: regulated banks,
cross-border managed services, mission-critical infrastructure. Over 9+ years — at the European Central
Bank, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, and Lexmark — the pattern repeats: join a service in crisis (siloed
teams, failing SLAs, mass resignations), and rebuild it into something stable, audited, and calm.
I hold CISM (ISACA) and ITIL v4 Strategist: Direct, Plan, Improve, and am completing NIS2 auditor
certification. I've taken organisations through SOC 1, SOC 2, C5, and ISO 27001/9001 simultaneously —
with zero audit findings — by building compliance into daily operations instead of treating it as a
once-a-year performance for the auditor.
I also hold a BA in Classical Philology from Eötvös Loránd University, alongside a BA in Aesthetics —
which is where this practice's name actually comes from: the interpunct is the small mark ancient
scribes used to separate one word from the next, from back when Greek was written as an unbroken
stream of letters with no space between them at all. Finding the boundary that makes the pattern
legible — rather than imposing one that doesn't fit the noise it's meant to organise — is more or less
the whole job description.
I'm also a hands-on daily practitioner of the tools I advise on — Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini —
and co-founded an AI fluency training venture teaching organisations to adopt them with the same
discipline I bring to everything else.