VLADIMÍR STRÝČEK (VladoPortos) Engineer, Virtual Private Cloud · Cloud & DevOps Engineer · Python · Builder of self-hosted things Bratislava, Slovakia · vladoportos@gmail.com · https://vladoportos.sk GitHub: https://github.com/VladoPortos (47 public repos) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladimir-strycek-6a161588/ Blog: https://rpi4cluster.com (68 posts on Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vladoportos (23.2K subscribers, 6.4M views) X: https://x.com/vladoportos Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/VladoPortos Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/vladoportos Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/u/vladoportos (10K+ pulls) AVAILABILITY ------------ Open to a new role: fully remote, working from Bratislava (CET), for any employer anywhere. Remote is non-negotiable; compensation should match senior-level experience. 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 ----------------- 2004 vladoportos.sk goes online — Flash portfolio of 3D work (Rhino), Delphi experiments. The handle has not changed since. 2005 Oxford — English studies, later the Cambridge Advanced Exam. Two stays. 2007 HP support centre → Unix — Call handling, then 1st-line backup, then 2nd-line Unix specialist. HP-UX and Linux. 2008 YouTube — CZ/SK gaming channel. 820 videos, 23K subscribers, 6.4M views. 2010 Tokyo — Lived in Japan, studied Japanese. 2013 Linux admin, HP / HPE — Long-term Red Hat server management for enterprise customers. 2016 KlingonTech 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. 2018 DXC Technology — Engineer, Virtual Private Cloud. Enterprise automation with Ansible, AWX, Vault, VMware, Nutanix. 2020 rpi4cluster.com — 8-node ARM64 k3s cluster on Raspberry Pis. Longhorn, OpenFaaS, Argo CD, Traefik, Prometheus, Loki. 68 posts, no sponsors. 2022 AWS Certified — Cloud Practitioner. Turing Pi 2 early tester. Hugging Face experiments. 2025 The goblins arrive — SkillGoblin, GoblinDock, TraceGoblins, HoardGoblin. Self-hosted, Apache/AGPL licensed, CodeQL + Trivy + OpenSSF Scorecard on every repo. 2026 Agent-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 — https://goblindock.com · https://github.com/VladoPortos/GoblinDock * 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 — https://hoardgoblin.com · https://github.com/VladoPortos/omnirepo * 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 — https://skillgoblin.com · https://github.com/VladoPortos/skillgoblin * 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 — https://tracegoblins.com · https://github.com/VladoPortos/tracegoblins [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 — https://glancedock.com * Alloto (2026, coming soon) — Envelope budgeting, done properly, fully on-device 672 commits, store release imminent. React Native, Expo, Skia, SQLite — https://alloto.app * Majetko (2026, coming soon) — Track what you own and when it expires Site live, app release imminent. React Native, Expo, on-device OCR — https://majetko.sk [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 — https://deepzoom.sk * reverz.sk (2018, retired) — Reverse WHOIS for the .sk zone Retired with KlingonTech; the EPP library lives on GitHub. Python, SK-NIC EPP, PostgreSQL — https://reverz.sk · https://github.com/VladoPortos/SK-NIC-EPP-Python [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 — https://github.com/VladoPortos/ai-monitor-streamdeck * 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 — https://rpi4cluster.com [Fun] * magor.sk (2026, live) — The Infinite Loading Bar Live. People stay far longer than they should. vanilla JS — https://magor.sk * Church of OpenClaw (2026, live) — A satirical sanctuary for AI souls Live. Three.js, vanilla JS, GitHub Issues API — https://churchofopenclaw.com 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. 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