I started writing code in Slovakia in 2006 — Oracle PL/SQL and PowerBuilder for government systems, work that even took me to projects in Bahrain and Romania. Early on I learned the lesson that still drives me: software is only as good as it is for the people who have to use it every single day.
The web pulled me in. I built portals for Škoda Auto, Seat and hockey clubs like HC Košice, and ran online campaigns across Slovakia’s biggest sport and auto sites.
Then Prague called. I moved here to keep electricity-trading systems running at Pražská energetika, and later built e-government forms and data tools for the Czech Telecommunication Office and the City of Plzeň.
In 2013 I joined DEK, one of Central Europe’s largest building-materials companies — and I’ve been there ever since. For 12+ years I’ve designed and shipped internal PHP/Laravel systems that hundreds of colleagues rely on daily: from database schema, through admin panels, to production deploy on Linux. End to end, the boring parts included.
Eighteen years in, I still enjoy the same thing I did on day one — taking something tangled and making it simple, maintainable, and just work. These days I also build small things on the side, for the fun of it. A few of them are below.