Brno, Czech Republic · Building globally

I build systems that turn
complex ideas into working products.

Founding Backend Engineer working at the intersection of AI, backend platforms, developer tooling and infrastructure. I design systems that are not only technically sound — they get shipped, used and maintained.

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AI systemsBackend platformsAI agents & automationE-commerce / Shoptet0→1 deliverySupply-chain securityDevOps

What I do

From ambiguous problem
to production system.

My strongest work starts before there is a clean specification. I take an unclear technical or product problem, find the constraints, design the architecture and build the first version that proves the idea in the real world.

That can mean an AI control plane, a security automation pipeline, a live race-timing backend, an integration-heavy platform or a production mobile app talking to hardware.

Selected work

Systems with real constraints.

A few projects that represent how I think: architecture, delivery, reliability and useful automation.

AI PLATFORM2026

Kyberos — LLM Guardian

A control plane for understanding and optimizing the cost, reliability and routing of production LLM applications.

Problem

LLM applications become expensive and hard to reason about once models, retries, fallbacks and prompts spread across products and teams.

System

Python / Java / Kotlin SDKs, ingestion API, OpenTelemetry-style traces, token and cost analytics, alerts, routing intelligence and a management dashboard.

Focus

Cost per successful outcome, wasted spend, retry loops, model choice, cache effectiveness, latency and production safety.

PythonFastAPIOpenTelemetryPostgreSQLNext.jsLLM routing

SECURITY AUTOMATIONPRODUCTION

SBOM / OSS Security Platform

Automated software supply-chain analysis across repositories and container images, with normalized CycloneDX output and security-tool integrations.

GitLab CI/CD scanning workflows
Syft, ORT, Dependency-Track, FOSSA
Private registries & dependency resolution
Whitelist logic and S3-compatible storage

PythonSBOMCycloneDXDockerGitLab

REAL-TIME SYSTEM2025—

Motosurf Race Timing

Real-time race timing and analytics built from scratch for live events, replacing manual result-processing workflows.

Live lap timing and standings
Complex race and lapped-rider logic
MyLaps / UDP / custom sensor inputs
Automated result feeds and exports

PythonReal-timeUDPData pipelines

ML / COMPUTER VISIONR&D

Production Computer Vision

Research, technical leadership and deployment infrastructure for real-time visual analytics and machine-learning products.

Object detection & tracking
Person re-identification
PyTorch / TensorFlow deployment
Advanced multimedia analytics team lead

PyTorchTensorFlowComputer VisionML

AI AUTOMATIONAGENTS

AI Acquisition & Research Agents

Agent workflows that turn fragmented public signals into ranked opportunities, research summaries and concrete next actions instead of another pile of raw data.

Multi-source company and market research
Signal extraction, scoring and prioritization
Human-in-the-loop outreach recommendations
Legal and operational constraints built into workflow design

LLM agentsPythonAutomationResearchScoring

BACKEND PLATFORMINTEGRATIONS

Integration-heavy Backend Systems

Backend services that sit between APIs, databases, queues, files, hardware and third-party systems — with the reliability and observability needed to run them in production.

REST APIs, async workers and event-driven flows
PostgreSQL / TimescaleDB data models
External API and hardware integrations
Docker, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD delivery

FastAPIasyncioSpring BootPostgreSQLKubernetes

E-COMMERCESHOPTET

Shoptet Storefront & Commerce Automation

Hands-on customization of a Shoptet storefront, from information architecture and responsive navigation to catalog preparation and lightweight automation around commerce operations.

Custom mega-menu behavior for desktop and mobile
Responsive CSS / JavaScript fixes and UX polish
Category structure, imagery and product presentation
Catalog-oriented automation opportunities

ShoptetJavaScriptCSSE-commerceAutomation

DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITYAI WORKFLOWS

Engineering Control Room

A lightweight operating system for working across several parallel projects and AI-agent threads without losing context, status or next actions.

Project-context snapshots and handoff conventions
Agent-friendly status and next-action updates
GitHub / Notion as systems of record
Reduced context switching and manual project overhead

AI agentsWorkflow designGitHubNotionAutomation

RESEARCH / HPCPhD

CFD Solver & Scientific Computing

A multithreaded C++ solver and research toolchain for computational fluid dynamics, thermal and electromagnetic analysis.

Custom numerical solver architecture
Parallel CPU / NVIDIA CUDA computing
OpenGL scientific visualization
Research with Czech Academy of Sciences & ABB

C++CUDAOpenGLHPCCFD

How I work

Engineering without theatre.

Ship the smallest real system

Prototype against actual constraints, not an imaginary future architecture.

Own the whole path

Architecture, API, data, CI/CD, deployment and operational feedback belong to one system.

Automate repeated judgment

Good tooling should remove recurring analysis and manual work, not create another dashboard to watch.

Design for the next engineer

Clear boundaries, observability and maintainability matter more than clever abstractions.

Experience

Two decades of building.

Backend, AI/ML, mobile, infrastructure and safety-critical engineering — the common thread is reliable software under real constraints.

2025—NOW

Back End Developer · Yunex Traffic

Data processing, automation, software supply-chain security, SBOM workflows, APIs, CI/CD and reliability.

2014—NOW

Freelance Software Developer

End-to-end systems across backend, data, infrastructure and automation. From concept and architecture to production delivery.

2020—2025

iOS Developer · Xmarton

Production iOS applications, APIs, SDKs, BLE/hardware integrations, performance and App Store delivery.

2024—2025

Back End Developer · Konica Minolta Business Solutions Czech

Python backend services, integrations, API logic and data processing.

2022—2024

Backend Developer · Yunex Traffic

Java / Spring Boot and Python services, PostgreSQL data models and integration pipelines for traffic infrastructure.

2021—2023

Software Engineer · Earth.guide

Backend, DevOps, data analytics, ML engineering and cloud-native infrastructure.

2016—2019

Senior R&D Engineer → Senior Technical Lead · Konica Minolta Laboratory Europe

Computer vision, machine learning, augmented reality and leadership of an advanced multimedia analytics team.

2006—2014

Software Design Engineer · Honeywell

Aerospace and avionics software in certified, safety-critical development environments.

About

Builder first.
Architect when needed.

I have spent my career moving between layers that are usually separated: low-level scientific computing, safety-critical aerospace, native mobile, computer vision, backend platforms, DevOps and now production AI systems.

That breadth is useful when the problem does not fit neatly inside one framework or one team. I can reason about the product, data flow, software architecture, deployment and operational failure modes as one connected system.

PhDComputational Fluid Dynamics / Electrical EngineeringBrno University of Technology · 2003—2009

MScElectrical EngineeringBrno University of Technology · 1998—2003

Tools I reach for

Backend

Python · FastAPI · asyncio · SQLAlchemy · Java · Spring Boot · Kotlin · Go · REST

AI / Data

LLM systems · AI agents · routing · evaluation · OpenTelemetry · PyTorch · TensorFlow · Pandas · Polars · ML / CV

Security

SBOM · CycloneDX · Syft · ORT · Dependency-Track · FOSSA · OSS compliance

Infrastructure

Docker · Kubernetes · Helm · GitLab CI/CD · Linux · PostgreSQL · S3 · Grafana / Loki

Product

React · TypeScript · Next.js · dashboards · Shoptet · e-commerce · Swift · SwiftUI · UIKit · BLE integrations

Contact

Have a difficult system
that needs to become real?

I'm always interested in strong engineering problems, 0→1 products, AI infrastructure, backend platforms, automation and commerce systems where reliability actually matters.

me@ferdinandurban.com ↗ LinkedIn ↗

I build systems that turn complex ideas into working products.

From ambiguous problemto production system.