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CHAOSSME
Lukáš. engineer of observable systems, resident of two countries.
the thing behind me is a . it never repeats. neither do I.
What I do for a living
I do observability: making large distributed systems tell you what's actually happening inside them. My weapon of choice is Dynatrace (certified Dynatrace Associate), and my hunting grounds are banks, government agencies and anything else with too many moving parts.
A normal week: tracing a race condition through real-user monitoring data, untangling a broken SSL certificate chain nobody else wants to touch, or building a funnel analysis that a dashboard vendor claims is impossible. I also run internal sessions on using AI as an engineering tool, because pretending it doesn't exist is not a strategy.
Before this: tech lead, general infrastructure, and enough coding across the stack to be dangerous everywhere.
Certifications
- Dynatrace Associate
- Dynatrace Partner Sales Specialist
- Dynatrace Partner Sales
Where I've been
- 2024 — IT Consultant · Alanata Dynatrace and observability for banks and public-sector systems.
- 2021 — 2024 Tech Lead / CTO · Webgate Led web solutions, backend integrations and DevOps for clients like Bloomreach. Ran the team, defined specs, obsessed over automation and reusable systems. Co-owned the company in its final year.
- 2019 — 2021 Full-stack Developer · Freelance Laravel, Vue, WordPress. APIs, CI/CD, Docker, database modelling. Built custom tools and back-office systems for clients including ChernobylX and Vacuumlabs.
Things I build after dark
- iron familyThe longest build. Husband and father. Stability isn't found, it's engineered: the paperwork, the psychology, the physical work, the self. Load-bearing by choice.
- ambr.energyAn energy drink lifestyle brand and community experiment. Part product, part playground.
- smart homeA slowly self-aware apartment: sensors, hubs, lightstrips, automations. The goal is a home that notices things before I do.
- audiodeathcore for focus · synthwave for night drives · bluegrass for entropy
- psychologyhow people work, why they break, how human systems fail like software
- geographySlovakia ⇄ Ukraine · three languages · one home
- chaostiny initial differences, divergent worlds
- signaldashboards that answer questions, not decorate walls
- toolssmall sharp utilities everyone ends up using
- knowledgesessions, docs, the occasional polite hard truth
- calmsystems that page less · people who sleep more
Tools in rotation
The kit I reach for, from observability down to the code underneath.