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Pavol Miklas

Pavol Miklaš

Software Engineer

About

I’m driven by progress.

What began in my early years with rhythm and discipline behind a trumpet slowly evolved into something else — building systems, solving problems, and turning ideas into things that actually work. Somewhere along the way, rhythms turned into algorithms.

Today I operate at the intersection of technology, business thinking, and human collaboration. I design and build digital systems, often helping shape direction and momentum within projects while turning complex ideas into elegant solutions.

Outside the digital world you’ll find me on a mountain bike, under a barbell, taking care of my orchard, or experimenting in the kitchen with healthy food. Discipline, resilience, and curiosity have shaped who I am — values rooted in my upbringing, years of music training, a lifelong drive to keep learning, and an active connection to sports.

I believe life rewards those who stay persistent and optimistic. There is space for everyone to succeed, and meaningful things take time to build.

I enjoy meeting people who think big, build things, and stay positive along the way.

Experience

Years in the game, and more coffee than any doctor would recommend.

The deep end

I started the way every junior dreams of — being thrown straight into the deep end. An insurance system serving tens of thousands of users across dozens of companies in Central Europe. Zero sandbox. Every commit shipped to production. I learned fast. Sure, I wanted to — but honestly, I had to. Turns out, that’s the best way.

The real lesson

The system was built for the electronisation of public health — making processes faster, more accessible, and available for health professionals who relied on it every day to handle requests and get their work done with less friction. From there, I went from shipping features to architecting full-stack systems from scratch — greenfield repositories scaled into production platforms serving hundreds daily. Frontend, backend, database design, CI/CD pipelines, UML diagrams, architecture decisions, business analysis... if it needed doing, I tried my best to own it. That taught me something no tutorial ever could: building software is 30% code and 70% understanding what people actually need.

Legacy to modern

I played a significant role in decomposing a legacy monolith into a modular, scalable architecture for road infrastructure management — a mission-critical product that keeps evolving and is genuinely valued by the parties that depend on it. The kind of system where every decision matters — and I actively leverage AI to accelerate delivery and elevate code quality across the board.

Content at scale

I also undertook a key role in a SaaS platform for digital and print book distribution — a large-scale monolith composed of tightly coordinated modules spanning inventory management, metadata processing, distribution analytics, and multi-channel content pipelines pushing to Amazon and other global marketplaces. High throughput, complex integrations, zero room for error.

The playground

When I’m not solving other people’s problems, I’m happily creating my own. One thing I genuinely enjoy is building things others can reuse — shared utility libraries, reusable component packages, Docker images, internal tools. There’s something deeply satisfying about packaging a solution well enough that someone else could just grab it and run. I’ve also built e-commerce platforms, crafted reference architectures, contributed to a popular 3D solar system simulator, and even got a patch merged into Google’s official Angular repository. My repositories are where curiosity becomes production-ready code. Every side project starts with ‘what if’ and ends with a new skill in the toolkit.

If your finger made it this far without rage-scrolling — I’d say we’re already off to a great start.

If you have an idea, a project, a business opportunity, or simply want to connect — don’t hesitate to reach out. Great collaborations often start with a simple conversation.