DevOps Engineer · Programmer · Lifelong Gamer
Hey, I’m Vlado — based in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. By day I ship resilient systems as a DevOps engineer and team-lead; by night I’m either streaming, deep in a hunt, or stuck in Eorzea. This is my corner of the internet for gaming, tech, AI, and whatever’s been on my mind that week.
I’ve been gaming since I was about five — Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, and Excitebike on the NES. Somewhere between then and now I picked up a keyboard for work too. By day I’m a DevOps engineer, programmer, and team lead when needed — basically a jack of all trades.
By night I’m either streaming on Twitch, working through a hunt, or in Eorzea on Dancer, Bard, or Red Mage. I’ve sunk thousands of hours into both FFXIV and Monster Hunter, and I write about both more than is probably healthy.
This site is my hub: gaming, tech, AI opinions, the MHGU Compendium, a deep Where Winds Meet archive, and the side projects I keep tinkering with. If any of that overlaps with what you do — come say hi.
// note: percentages are a lie. Skill isn’t a number out of 100 — it’s how often I reach for the thing and what I trust myself to ship. Grouped accordingly.
Music-artist portfolio for KAIYO//SHARD — 27+ releases with cover art, an interactive Howler.js audio player (shuffle / repeat / playlist), and a Filament admin for managing releases. Full-stack Laravel + Inertia + Vue.
Monster Hunter fashion/transmog submission platform — Discord-auth hunters publish armor sets with images, the community likes / bookmarks / browses across MHGU · World · Rise · Wilds. Inspired by Eorzea Collection.
My dedicated Monster Hunter subdomain — articles, the MHGU Compendium (weapons, armor, downloads, lore), the MHGU newbie guide, and ongoing notes across MHGU, World, Rise, and Wilds. Scoped parchment theme, hand-written content, no SEO spam.
A deep archive for the wuxia open-world MMO — stories, characters, bosses, regions, credits. Built as I play, updated as the game expands. The closest thing on the web to a player’s lore companion.