About

I'm a software engineer who builds with React and TypeScript for clients while building free with tech as my long-term mission. I care about software that feels fast, clear, and respectful of people's time. Under both sides of my work is the same question: how can technology help us live better instead of pulling us further away from ourselves?

I didn't arrive at that question from theory. Counter-Strike 1.6 got me hooked on computers as a kid, but I quickly shifted from playing to building. At 12, I co-founded a gaming portal with classmates. Later, I ran one of the first CS:GO servers in Slovakia and Czechia and trained seriously with ambitions of going pro. Gaming took most of my attention then, but I was also drawn to visual work through hobby web designs and logos in Photoshop. That mix of competition, community, and visual instinct is what pulled me toward frontend work.

Growing up near the Tatra Mountains gave me another reference point: nature, movement, and time away from screens. It shaped how I think about ambition, balance, and what a good life actually looks like. Today, I still spend most of my free time outdoors hiking, ski touring, cycling, and being outside. I need that contrast.

Studying Computer Science turned that early obsession into a career. During my master's, I worked at a web performance agency building fast Jamstack sites and became obsessed with software that feels instant and respects the user's time. Around the same time, my Erasmus in Slovenia in 2019 pulled me into climate protests and made me think more seriously about how technology fits into larger systems. That led to my thesis on eco-driving optimization with beautofuel and later to projects like Sustainable UI and edi.

That chapter mattered, but it also forced a deeper reset. Burnout and a layoff pushed me to question not only what I was building, but my relationship with technology itself. I had spent years optimizing websites, apps, and systems without fully asking whether the technology around me was helping me live well. I kept running into the same problems: fragmented attention, compulsive use, and the quiet erosion of focus, intention, and time.

That's the bigger why behind what I do today. Through free with tech, I'm building tools, practices, and ideas around digital freedom: using technology on your terms, staying grounded in the analog world, and breaking out of digital slavery. I fund that mission through client work, helping teams build products that are thoughtful, fast, and respectful of the people who use them.