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Myky

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Operations first, then data,
now I build

Michal Antal

My name is Michal Antal, but everyone calls me Myky. I did not get into software through a computer science degree. I got there through six years of running operations, where every wasted hour had a name and a price.

That is why I ask how a business works before I build anything. Most badly built systems are not badly programmed, they are built on a poor understanding of what the business actually does.

AI makes writing code faster. It does not decide what gets built, and it does not replace that first conversation.

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How I got here

2018 → 2022

Three hundred events and budgets with no undo

I ran over three hundred events, from small gatherings to international championships, with budgets up to forty thousand euros and teams of up to thirty people across four countries. At an event there is no "we will fix it tomorrow". Either it works at ten on Saturday morning or three hundred people are standing there looking at you. It taught me to plan ahead and to assume something will fail.

2022 → 2023

Bolt, where a change in logic raised people’s pay

At Bolt I handled courier fleet logistics. It looked operational but it was a data problem. Couriers were being sent across half the city for orders that were not worth taking. I reworked the dispatch logic to account for where a courier actually was and where it was worth going. Average courier revenue rose 72% in two months. Those are not numbers in a report, that is money specific people took home.

2023 → 2026

Enterprise data and receipts for six hundredths of a crown

Alongside management studies at the Prague University of Economics I consulted on IBM Planning Analytics at Adastra. When the system went down I rebuilt eight critical reporting forms in a single week, the ones the monthly close depended on. My thesis was on autonomous data extraction from accounting documents. Commercial tools charge around four crowns per document. Mine got below six hundredths of a crown, roughly seventy times cheaper. The same principle now powers the feature in Paving Planner that turns a photo of a sketch into a drawing.

2024 → now

My own products

Six finished projects. Two are used daily by real businesses, one is a paid SaaS in seven languages. I also guest lecture at the Prague University of Economics on AI agents for data extraction.

The tools I work with

I do not rebuild from scratch what somebody has already built better. These are the open tools I have wired into my work, with links to their source. They are public, so you can look.

On top of that I subscribe to Claude Max 20, the highest tier. Every month I spend more on tooling than some agencies charge for a whole job. That is why the results look the way they do. I do not cut corners on what I actually build your work with.

Education and certifications

The list is not complete and I keep adding to it. The engineering and electrical qualifications are not decoration: a good share of my clients are manufacturing and trade businesses, and it makes a difference when you can talk about their work without them having to explain it first.

Engineering trade

  • Engineer of mechanical engineering
  • Electrical qualification §21
  • Flame welding

Data and AI

  • Claude Ecosystem Mastery by Anthropic (MCP, Agent Skills, AI Fluency, Bedrock and Vertex AI)
  • IBM Planning Analytics (TM1)
  • Data Science Professional (KNIME)
  • MS Excel Expert (NASBA preparation)

Communication and leadership

  • NLP Practitioner & Master
  • Professional speaking (Toastmasters)

Languages

  • Slovak · native
  • English · C1
  • Spanish · B1
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