About me
Hi, I’m Danko Adamczyk — Solutions Architect, breath coach and lifelong student of both technology and human development.
I’m driven by curiosity, craftsmanship and the desire to build things that are not only effective, but meaningful and sustainable.
Professional journey
I’ve been building software for two decades, growing from hands-on development into guiding long-term architecture and engineering culture. What has stayed the same all that time is one question: does the software still say what the business means?
That question is why I keep returning to Domain-Driven Design — finding the real domain, naming it in the language people already use, and drawing honest boundaries around it. EventStorming is how I get a room full of different disciplines to see that picture together, and it is usually where the hidden boundaries surface. The architecture follows from there: modular, event-driven where that helps, and above all something teams can keep changing without waiting on each other.
Clean code is where all of that turns out to be true, or not. A boundary that doesn’t survive contact with the codebase was never more than a drawing, so I stay close to the code — naming, tests, small deliberate refactors — as the practical proof that the model still holds. And I like doing that with people around me: sharing what I know, mentoring, and leaving a team better equipped than I found it.
Beyond technology
Alongside my technical career, I’m active as a breath coach. Personal growth and balance between hard and soft skills play a central role in my life and work.
In my free time, I explore healthy living climate and smart automation in small, off-grid spaces — using the conversion of a vintage camper as my hands-on testbed for craftsmanship, self-sufficiency and simplicity. A beautiful counterbalance to my digital work.
Whether I’m architecting software or holding space for a breath-circel, my intention is the same: to create clarity, trust and sustainable progress.
For a full overview of my professional background, visit my LinkedIn.
Experience
Two decades of building and architecting software
The roles most relevant to CZYK. Solutions, in reverse chronological order.
- Application Architect · NS Mobiliteitsdiensten
Owned long-term software quality and scalability of a fast-growing mobility platform. Introduced Domain-Driven Design and EventStorming to give business and engineering a shared language and explicit domain boundaries, and left behind the guardrails — principles, refactor playbooks and automated architecture reviews — that keep teams moving in that direction.
- Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead · LegionellaDossier
Developing their in-house platform for digital Legionella risk management — from risk analysis and maintenance planning to asset management of tap points.
- Software Engineer · Tacitic
Built Flux, an in-house intelligent data warehousing platform, and a webshop for medical supplies.
- Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead · Studyportals
Helped this scale-up grow from 30 employees to 200+ worldwide, moving from a monolith codebase and waterfall planning to several agile engineering teams. Gained PSM I certification; scrum master and team lead for several teams.
- Software Engineer · Kablau & Joustra Information Engineers
Custom software, ERP systems and webshops, working independently and in teams.
- Co-Owner · Dutchlanders
Privately owned partnership in web development and graphic design. Built our own CMS, Jaap (JavaScript And A lot of PHP), complete with licensing and remote updates.
- Application Developer · Hellings Machinebouw BV
Early career: maintaining and improving an ERP system built in MS Access/VBA, plus general IT support.