From life-critical medical devices to living game worlds. 28 years of building systems across domains most engineers never touch.
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const karol = {
location: "Denver, CO 🇺🇸",
experience: {
professional: "18+ years",
total: "28+ years",
domains: [
"Medical device systems (where bugs cost lives)",
"MMO game servers (Ultima Online: community management, reverse engineering, building tooling, worlds, teams of GameMasters)",
"FPS engines (QuakeWorld: fast-paced UDP, server-synchronization, client-side-prediction for smooth gameplay)",
"Developer tooling (because we all hate JIRA)"
]
},
education: {
linguistics: "Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 🇧🇪",
languages: ["English", "Polish", "Dutch", "German", "Swedish", "Russian", "Hungarian"]
},
computingJourney: [
"Amiga 500 (AMOS + M68K assembly) - where it all began",
"C on PCs - systems programming foundation",
"PHP - web development era",
".NET since 'Microsoft Cool' beta days",
"...and everything that came after"
],
currentStack: ["C#", "Go", "TypeScript", "C", "PHP", "Docker", "Linux"],
architecture: [
"System design & technical leadership",
"Microservices & distributed systems",
"Event-driven architecture",
"Real-time multiplayer systems",
"Technical documentation & ADRs",
"Team scaling & mentorship"
],
philosophy: "Build systems that scale. Ship code that matters. Learn constantly.",
whenNotCoding: {
sky: "Flying paramotors 🪂",
space: "Stargazing 🛰",
speed: "2014 Belgium adult karting champion 🏆 • Top 1% iRacing driver 🏎"
}
}I love building things and talking shop about:
- System architecture at scale
- Game engine internals
- Developer experience optimization
- Linguistics & natural language processing
- Anything involving paramotors or telescopes
📫 Open to collaboration, consulting, or just nerding out over complex systems.
🏆 Coach • Team Player • Linux User • Polyglot (code and human languages)