Lukáš Lalinský
Chief Software Architect at AcoustID
Trenčín, Region of Trenčín, Slovakia
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Top SchoolLukáš Lalinský is a Chief Software Architect and founder with over 20 years of experience designing and shipping backend systems for large internet services, with a strong focus on audio processing, metadata and fingerprinting. He built and operates AcoustID from scratch—implementing audio analysis, fingerprint search, API and public service—and now leads architecture and product engineering at SoundStack to simplify audio creation and monetization. His hands-on background spans C++, Python, PostgreSQL and large-scale deployments, and he has contributed to well-known open-source projects like youtube-dl, Chromaprint and Mutagen, improving audio format handling and robustness. Lukáš combines deep low-level audio expertise with pragmatic system design—he often reshuffles complex code until it “clicks”—and has repeatedly bridged roles from devops to CTO-level architecture. Based in Trenčín, Slovakia, he brings entrepreneurial grit, production-operational experience, and a track record of turning research-grade audio tech into reliable services.
20 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
No degree, Applied Informatics, No degree, Applied Informatics at Masarykova univerzita v BrneNo degree, Information and Control Systems, No degree, Information and Control Systems at Žilinská univerzita
Slovak, English
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Github Skills (88)
json-parser10
postgresql10
python10
feature-extraction10
metadata10
cmake10
perl10
dns10
extractor10
fourier-transform10
javascript10
jquery10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
acoustid/chromaprint
Jul 2010 - Dec 2022
C library for generating audio fingerprints used by AcoustID
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 457 commits, 38 PRs in 12 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Lukáš primarily focused on improving the audio fingerprinting functionality of the Chromaprint library. Their contributions involved adding explicit checks to handle potential NaN results and ensuring the audio has at least one channel. The user also implemented an option to interpolate chroma features and made modifications to support file processing and related tools, ensuring the program could correctly handle various audio file formats. Furthermore, they added support for computing hashes from the fingerprint and implemented a robust memory management.
audio-processingc-libraryacoustidaudioaudio-analysis
metabrainz/picard
Aug 2006 - Apr 2017
Picard is a cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1039 commits, 8 PRs, 15 pushes in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Lukáš primarily contributed to implementing and refactoring features within the Picard tagger, focusing on the core logic for file handling and metadata management. Their work involved modifying code in various Python modules, including the core tagger functionality, handling CD lookups, and implementing logic for album and track processing. These changes included integrating with the MusicBrainz webservice and modifying how file metadata is handled within the application.
pythonpicardaudio-fileacoustidmusicbrainz
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