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tomalaci

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About tomalaci

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomalaci/ Email: tomass@tomalaci.com

Technologies: Go, Python, Rust, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitOps, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, ClickHouse, Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, IoT, distributed systems

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Senior/Lead Platform Engineer and backend developer with 12+ years of experience building distributed systems, data platforms, IoT fleet-management platforms, and infrastructure automation.

Recent work includes platforms managing 10,000+ distributed energy devices, telecom monitoring systems processing tens of millions of data points across millions of devices and sensors, and Kubernetes/GitOps platforms spanning AWS and private data centres.

Strongest in architecture and hands-on implementation: backend services, telemetry ingestion, time-series data, developer platforms, CI/CD automation, reliability, and cost-aware infrastructure. I have led small engineering teams, established engineering practices, and improved release frequency from weekly deployments to several releases per day.

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Interested in Senior, Lead, Staff, or early-stage founding/platform engineering roles. Open to permanent employment or B2B contracts through my Swedish company, Tomalaci Systems AB.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48968846

    Fixed already. I gotta say, compared to other large-scale systems (e.g. Github), this was blazing fast response.

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    ChatGPT Chat website having issues

    Seems like ChatGPT chat website is having issues. For example, I can't seem to access my conversation history. Incident link: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01KXXDNEAKEPRGFM66…

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    Comment #48865111

    Location: Stockholm, Sweden Remote: Yes - Sweden, EU, or international Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, Python, Rust, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitOps, PostgreSQL, Times…

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    Comment #48862780

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48721066

    I had quite a rollercoaster going from Windows 10 to Arch to Windows and then settling on NixOS. Main reason being able to do clean package/program setup and centralize, version-co…

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    Comment #48696975

    Probably because American AI companies are on the hook for quite a lot of investment money. I think they are trying to find the magical moat to justify their valuation. Revealing o…

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    Comment #47743738

    Amazing news for EU! If Tisza can get supermajority after votes are counted then they can also easily reverse a lot of constitutional corruption in Hungary done by Orban.

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    Comment #47583286

    I feel like all these hardware shortages will supercharge 2nd hand electronics and their refurbishing from repair specialists.

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    Comment #47422778

    I usually have a script/alias cmd to automatically convert images to webp. The webp format has pretty much replaced jpg/jpeg (lacks transparency/alpha support) and png (no compress…

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    Comment #46121389

    I usually give myself 30-60 mins to solve. If I can't do it by then I will look up solutions and -study- them (also break it piece by piece and see if I can generalize it for futur…

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    Comment #45914226

    Companies should quickly realize that ChatGPT can go both ways - it can turn a "script-kiddie" into fully fledged hacker if vulnerabilities continue to be this sloppy. I am fairly …

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    Comment #45877773

    AI powered business value provider frontend developers.

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    Comment #45359694

    Looks like this runtime is written in Rust. Really does seem like Rust is rapidly swallowing all kinds of common tools and libraries. In this case a single compiled binary for mult…

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    Comment #45359615

    You need at least 5 letters for Wordle.

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    Comment #44769220

    Steroids. You will be growing muscle while sitting on a couch, even better than someone that naturally trains. However, you very likely will develop asymetries or other weird compl…

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    Comment #44538139

    Exact stats are hard to come by but depletion of vehicles has certainly been noticed in battlefield footage: they started with proper military grade vehicles, went down to WW2 era …

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    Comment #44259379

    These kind of policies and that amortization tax law for software development will probably encourage quite some exodus of talent. Would it be to Europe or South East Asia, though?…

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    Comment #43878167

    I've been wondering what is the benefit of putting up your own web server or scripts to serve your static content when you could put it in a Github repo or serve from something lik…

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    Comment #42839753

    As if. The ship Finland seized some time ago was loaded with spy equipment [0]. If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, it is a Russian spy. [0] https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1…

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    Comment #42613217

    With AI exponentially accelerating effects of Dead Internet, I think any social or content-sharing platforms will require some form of Digital ID that can't be easily created/mass-…

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    Comment #42596040

    You know what AI profiles I want more of? Clueless grandma/grandpa that accepts scammer calls and waste their time. Such as UK's O2 Daisy: https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/o2-unvei…

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    Comment #42589641

    With the horrible reputation US insurance gets, is there some reason why smaller insurance companies aren't popping up to deliver better quality (i.e. less denials)? Is the field s…

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    Comment #42577274

    Prompt 1: Rent live crocodiles and tell the kids they're "modern dinosaurs." Let them roam freely as part of the immersive experience. Florida-certified. Prompt 2: Try sitting on a…

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    Comment #42577059

    I was going to write that this should of been caught pretty early if you had searched and click AWS Spot instances link to read about them being quite unstable/temporary. However, …

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    Comment #42540286

    I've used VictoriaMetrics in past (~4 years ago) for collection of not just service monitoring data but also for network switch and cell tower module metrics. At the time I found i…