Vladimír Strýček VladoPortos

Summary

Engineer, Virtual Private Cloud at DXC Technology (since 2018). Previously long-term Linux/Unix administrator at HP and HPE. Automates enterprise private cloud with Ansible, AWX, Vault, VMware, Nutanix and Kubernetes. Ships open-source, self-hosted tools that never phone home. Builds with AI agents as a daily practice.

22 years online under one handle. Enterprise private cloud by day, goblin-branded self-hosted tools by night.

Current role

Engineer, Virtual Private Cloud, DXC Technology since 2018

• Enterprise private-cloud automation platform: Ansible day-2 operations framework with HashiCorp Vault credential resolution (600+ commits)
• One-command local platform: k3s + AWX + Vault + configuration DB on a fresh RHEL VM
• Custom AWX execution environments with 28 pinned collections (VMware, Nutanix, AWS, NetApp, Foreman)
• Golden-image pipeline with Packer + cloud-init on Nutanix AHV; VM lifecycle mirroring Aria Automation
• Read-only REST bridge to the configuration DB with Vault AppRole auth and Pydantic allowlists

Career & timeline

1. 2004vladoportos.sk goes online Flash portfolio of 3D work (Rhino), Delphi experiments. The handle has not changed since.
2. 2005Oxford English studies, later the Cambridge Advanced Exam. Two stays.
3. 2007HP support centre → Unix Call handling, then 1st-line backup, then 2nd-line Unix specialist. HP-UX and Linux.
4. 2008YouTube CZ/SK gaming channel. 820 videos, 23K subscribers, 6.4M views.
5. 2010Tokyo Lived in Japan, studied Japanese.
6. 2013Linux admin, HP / HPE Long-term Red Hat server management for enterprise customers.
7. 2016KlingonTech s.r.o. Founded own company. Built reverz.sk (reverse WHOIS, 665K rows) and deepzoom.sk (150-gigapixel image of every .sk homepage). Sold in 2026.
8. 2018DXC Technology Engineer, Virtual Private Cloud. Enterprise automation with Ansible, AWX, Vault, VMware, Nutanix.
9. 2020rpi4cluster.com 8-node ARM64 k3s cluster on Raspberry Pis. Longhorn, OpenFaaS, Argo CD, Traefik, Prometheus, Loki. 68 posts, no sponsors.
10. 2022AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. Turing Pi 2 early tester. Hugging Face experiments.
11. 2025The goblins arrive SkillGoblin, GoblinDock, TraceGoblins, HoardGoblin. Self-hosted, Apache/AGPL licensed, CodeQL + Trivy + OpenSSF Scorecard on every repo.
12. 2026Agent-native GlanceDock in Rust, OmniRepo in Go, an AI receptionist kiosk, a fridge e-ink platform. Parallel Claude agents, adversarial Codex review, 90-agent security audits.

Selected projects

Self-hosted tools

• GoblinDock 2026 released

  Self-hosted Proxmox VE control panel

  v2.7.0, Apache-2.0, published on GHCR, independent security review passed.

  Python · FastAPI · SQLModel · Ansible · noVNC · Docker — site, source

• OmniRepo (HoardGoblin) 2026 released

  One Go binary serving every artifact protocol

  v1.0.1, Apache-2.0, audited by 90 parallel agents plus an adversarial reviewer before release.

  Go · React 19 · Trivy · SQLite — site, source

• SkillGoblin 2025 released

  Self-hosted video learning platform that runs on a Raspberry Pi

  4.9K Docker pulls, active Unraid community thread, OpenSSF Best Practices badge #12762, AGPL-3.0.

  Nuxt · Node · SQLite · Docker — site, source

• TraceGoblins 2026 released

  Turns a 600-line Ansible failure wall into a colour-graded status map

  Apache-2.0, published on GHCR; argon2id + TOTP + audit log built in.

  Python 3.12 · FastAPI · React 19 · PostgreSQL 16 — site, source

Products

• GlanceDock 2026 coming soon

  Native Windows widgets that live on the wallpaper layer

  748 commits, 3,398 Rust and frontend tests, signed release feed. Release imminent.

  Rust · Tauri v2 · Svelte 5 · WebView2 — site

• Alloto 2026 coming soon

  Envelope budgeting, done properly, fully on-device

  672 commits, store release imminent.

  React Native · Expo · Skia · SQLite — site

• Majetko 2026 coming soon

  Track what you own and when it expires

  Site live, app release imminent.

  React Native · Expo · on-device OCR — site

Data projects

• deepzoom.sk 2019 retired

  The entire Slovak internet as one 150-gigapixel image

  Ran for years under KlingonTech; a memorial site with real tiles is still live.

  Python · headless Chrome · pyvips · OpenSeadragon — site

• reverz.sk 2018 retired

  Reverse WHOIS for the .sk zone

  Retired with KlingonTech; the EPP library lives on GitHub.

  Python · SK-NIC EPP · PostgreSQL — site, source

AI

• AI Receptionist Kiosk 2026 deployed

  A Slovak-speaking voice AI on a portrait touchscreen

  In production at the client since September 2026.

  FastAPI · OpenAI Realtime (WebRTC) · React · PostgreSQL + pgvector · Redis

• Contact Scout 2026 active

  Contact extraction API with a self-hosted vision-model fallback

  In daily use; actively maintained.

  FastAPI · Scrapling · Botasaurus · llama.cpp · Qwen3-VL-2B

• AI Monitor for Stream Deck 2026 released

  Anthropic and Codex usage and service health on physical keys

  v0.1.3 shipped, open source.

  TypeScript · Stream Deck SDK — source

• Pi Agora 2026 prototype

  LLM agents on Raspberry Pis arguing on a LAN message board

  Working prototype on the homelab.

  FastAPI · SSE · React · Ollama · PostgreSQL

• SiteReel 2026 prototype

  URL in, narrated video tour of the page out

  Working prototype.

  FastAPI · Playwright · Xvfb · FFmpeg · OpenAI

Hardware

• Fridge E-Ink Platform 2026 running

  Two ESP32 e-paper panels on the fridge, updated by a home server

  Running on the fridge since August 2026.

  C++ · PlatformIO · ESP32 · FastAPI · PWA

Homelab

• rpi4cluster.com 2020 active

  8-node ARM64 Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pis, documented

  The reference many homelabbers start from; Turing Pi early tester.

  k3s · Longhorn · OpenFaaS · Argo CD · Traefik · Prometheus · Loki · AWX — site

Fun

• magor.sk 2026 live

  The Infinite Loading Bar

  Live. People stay far longer than they should.

  vanilla JS — site

• Church of OpenClaw 2026 live

  A satirical sanctuary for AI souls

  Live.

  Three.js · vanilla JS · GitHub Issues API — site

Homelab

Proxmox cluster (two nodes), Unraid, TrueNAS, UniFi UCG Max, Tailscale mesh, Home Assistant, Uptime Kuma, an RTX 4070 Ti for local models, an 8-node Raspberry Pi k3s cluster, a Turing Pi 2, and two e-ink panels on the fridge.

• pve-amd — Proxmox VE
• pve-dell — Proxmox VE
• unraid — Unraid storage + containers
• truenas — TrueNAS backups
• gpu — RTX 4070 Ti local models
• rpi-k3s ×8 — ARM64 Kubernetes cluster
• turing-pi-2 — Compute-module cluster board
• ucg-max — UniFi gateway
• fridge-eink ×2 — ESP32 e-paper panels

Skills

Languages

Python · Rust · Go · TypeScript · Bash · C++ (embedded)

Cloud & Infra

Ansible / AWX · HashiCorp Vault · Kubernetes (k3s) · VMware vSphere / NSX / vRO · Nutanix AHV · Proxmox · Packer · Docker · Cloudflare · AWS

Backend

FastAPI · SQLModel / Pydantic · PostgreSQL / pgvector · SQLite · Redis · Traefik / Caddy

Frontend

Svelte 5 · React 19 · Astro · Tauri v2 · React Native / Expo

AI

Claude Code + parallel agents · OpenAI Realtime · llama.cpp · ComfyUI · MCP servers · Adversarial multi-agent review

Hardware

Raspberry Pi clusters · Turing Pi 2 · ESP32 / e-paper · LoRaWAN · NFC · FPV drones · 3D printing

Certifications

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2022)

Education

• SPŠ-E K. Adlera, Bratislava (electrotechnical)
• English studies, Oxford (two stays); Cambridge CAE

Online

• GitHub github.com/VladoPortos — 47 public repos
• LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/vladimir-strycek-6a161588/
• Blog rpi4cluster.com — 68 posts on Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi
• YouTube www.youtube.com/@vladoportos — 23.2K subscribers, 6.4M views
• X x.com/vladoportos
• Reddit www.reddit.com/user/VladoPortos
• Ko-fi ko-fi.com/vladoportos
• Docker Hub hub.docker.com/u/vladoportos — 10K+ pulls