I’m a platform and infrastructure engineer based in Amsterdam, working independently through Phi Cloud Consulting. Currently embedded as a senior engineer on a two-person infrastructure team supporting a 160-person software company.
My focus is cloud-native infrastructure — GCP and AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, FluxCD. I care about systems that are boring in the best sense: automated, well-integrated, and low-maintenance by design. I hold Professional and Associate certifications in both GCP and AWS, and I write in Python, Bash, and Go when the problem calls for it.
Some things I’ve built
At one engagement I led an end-to-end overhaul of a Terraform database module, migrating ~300 Cloud SQL databases and integrating monitoring across Datadog and Grafana. At another I designed and delivered a Trino compute cluster architecture where tenants could spin up autoscaling clusters via a single config file push — built on Terraform, Jenkins, Packer, and Ansible.
Before cloud
My path here wasn’t straight. I studied Applied Mathematics and have a background in Cybernetics and Robotics, which led to early work in industrial automation — including the upgrade of a propylene gas turbine at a refinery in Kstovo, Russia, and work on the Eldfisk II oil platform off Stavanger, Norway. That grounding in physical, high-stakes systems still shapes how I think about reliability.
Outside work
Olympic weightlifting, mountaineering, tennis. Reading in philosophy, economics, geopolitics, and cyberpunk. I’ve been a serious AI practitioner since 2023 — it’s changed how I work more than any other tool in recent memory.
Czech by origin, I’ve lived in Australia, Spain, and now the Netherlands — and picked up enough Russian along the way to work in a refinery with it.
This site is where I publish things I’ve figured out and wish had existed when I was searching.