Lukas Lukac
Staff Engineer - Price Data
Bratislava, Region of Bratislava, Slovakia
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Lukac is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, real-time Web3 backend systems in Go, currently designing Temporal workflows to index 500M+ OHLCV candles for 100k+ assets at Consensys. He previously scaled Infura’s IPFS to serve 100M+ files for clients like Reddit and Coinbase, leading a refactor that cut AWS costs by 80% and engineered low-latency database layers using Aurora and MemoryDB. Lukas blends deep distributed-systems expertise with practical DevOps—Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and PagerDuty—to keep mission-critical services at 99.9%+ uptime. He authored the hands-on book "Build a Blockchain from Scratch in Go," mentoring 600+ developers and turning complex P2P and EVM concepts into accessible learning. An early innovator in Web3, he built an EVM-based authorization layer for IPFS Bitswap and a Smart Vault access-control protocol, showing a recurring focus on privacy and programmable access in decentralized systems. Based in Bratislava, he prefers collaborating with kind, product-focused engineers who aim for financial freedom, privacy, and decentralization.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Slovenská technická univerzita v BratislaveInformation Technology, Information Technology at University of ZilinaSPŠ Technické lýceum, Information Technology, SPŠ Technické lýceum, Information Technology at SPŠ Technické lýceum Bardejov
Github Skills (177)
programming-language10
ipfs10
interpreter10
security10
smart-contracts10
p2p10
code-generator10
solidity10
golang10
sqlite10
react-select10
libp2p10
go10
kotlin10
ethereum10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
INFURA/ipfs-copy
Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
Pin your existing IPFS files stored in Infura in 3 steps.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 44 commits in 7 months
storedipfsinfurapinsteps
lightstreams-network/example-eshop
May 2019 - Apr 2020
Example of a peer-to-peer eShop application built using the Lightstreams SDK
Contributions:21 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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