Lukas Pastva

👋 Who Am I

16+ years in IT. Built SaaS platforms, led CI/CD and Observability, did pre-sales magic, and occasionally summoned Kubernetes demons on purpose. Results-driven, caffeine-powered.

🛠️ Technical Skills (with unapologetic honesty)

Cloud & DevOps

AWS GCP Azure DigitalOcean Vultr Linode Contabo

Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes (RKE2, EKS, AKS, GKE) Docker ArgoCD docker-compose Helm

CI/CD

GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins TeamCity

IaC & Automation

Terraform Ansible Salt

Software & Web

.NET C# Java PHP JavaScript Python HTML/CSS REST Apache/IIS/Tomcat

Data

MySQL MSSQL Oracle ElasticSearch InfluxDB

Observability & Platforms

Prometheus Thanos Loki Tempo Grafana Dynatrace Datadog CheckMK Istio Jaeger Zipkin Nexus

Security & Ops

TLS SSH Cloudflare API Windows Server ServiceNow BizTalk ServiceBus ITIL Agile

Chaos & Misc

Chaos Engineering (Gremlin) Mailu Traefik Postman APIs everywhere

Yes, it's a lot. No, I don't deploy all of it at once... anymore.

🧠 Soft Skills

• Natural leader and people manager (herded cats, called it a team).
• Critical/technical thinker with a delivery mindset (and a calendar full of standups).
• Understands business trade-offs: scope, time, cost... and sanity.
• Receptive to feedback - I even ask for it on purpose.
• 20+ years juggling projects without dropping production (often).
• Quick learner: new tech, who dis?

🗣️ Languages

Slovak - C2 English - C1 German - A2 Polish - A1 Spanish - A1

I can order coffee in five tongues and debug in six.

🎉 Projects & Hobbies

• RKE Kubernetes cluster owner, DevOps... a lot of DevOps.
• Collecting vintage handheld audio hardware - DAT, DCC, Discman, MiniDisc, Walkman.
• Collecting Mr Music Hits (MC & CD), Scooter (MC & CD), and Bravo Hits (CD).