👋 Hey, I'm Karol

Architect. Linguist. Builder of systems that matter.

From life-critical medical devices to living game worlds. 28 years of building systems across domains most engineers never touch.

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🎯 What I'm Building Now

docketly.io - Enabling Architects and Tech Leads to create professional and beautiful technical outputs. Generate stunning .docx and .pptx documents with architectural precision. TypeScript • Document Generation • Technical Documentation

ticketr v1.0.0 🎉 - Your all-in-one JIRA helper (yeah, I'm crushing on Go right now). Just shipped 1.0.0! Go • Productivity • Workflow Automation

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🏗️ The Journey

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 🏎"
  }
}

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📈 GitHub Activity

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🤝 Let's Connect

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.

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_{🏆 Coach • Team Player • Linux User • Polyglot (code and human languages)}