Education

2024 — present
Double degree PhD program between Canadian INRS - Institut national de la recherche scientifique and Czech Brno University of Technology
Dissertation thesis in the field of cybersecurity, cryptography and blockchain technologies
2022 — 2024
Master's degree, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
Faculty of Information Technology, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence programme, specialization in cybersecurity
2019 — 2022
Bachelor's degree, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
Faculty of Information Technology, Information Technology programme

Professional summary

Feb. 2020 — Aug. 2025
Software Engineer, Red Hat
Front-end development of apps from Red Hat's cloud services in React
Jun. 2024 — Aug. 2025
Blockchain Researcher and Engineer, Brno University of Technology
Development of blockchain system for bond tokenization, project commisioned by Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade
Aug. 2024 — Aug. 2025
Blockchain Engineer, Masaryk University
Development of blockchain system for renewable energy distribution, project commisioned by Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Certifications

Aug. 2024
Red Hat Certified System Administrator
System administration within Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments

Awards

2022
Dean's award
Award for excellent bachelor's thesis Self-Supervised Learning for Recognition of Sports Poses in Image, see below.

Languages

English
Fluent
French
Elementary
German
Elementary
Slovak
Native speaker

Notable projects

2020 — 2025
Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console frontend
Frontend development of Red Hat's cloud services, which enable analysis and management of customer RHEL systems and OpenShift clusters.
Related skills: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Cypress, agile methodologies, CI/CD, Jira
2021 — 2022
Self-Supervised Learning for Recognition of Sports Poses in Image
Bachelor's thesis researching the use of Siamese convolutional neural networks with contrastive learning to classify yoga poses from image which received the Dean's Award. Available online.
Related skills: artificial intelligence, TensorFlow, Keras, NumPy, OpenCV
2023 — 2024
Analysis of Cryptographic Techniques for Offloading Computations and Storage in Blockchains
Master's thesis which explores existing techniques for improving the computational, storage and energy efficiency of blockchains. The thesis also proposes a novel approach to delegating computations utilizing blockchain technologies and zero-knowledge proofs. Available online.
Related skills: cryptography, blockchain, networking, Python, Pytest
2024 — 2025
DEUSS: Digital EUropean Securities System
Blockchain platform for issuing, trading and managing financial securities, focused on decreasing the barrier to entry for small and medium enterprises.
Related skills: cybersecurity, blockchain, Solidity, Ethereum, React
2024 — 2025
DEM4PED: Data Exchange Model For Positive Energy Districts
Tokenization of renewable energy using blockchain technologies which enables producers and consumers of electrical energy in positive energy districts to efficiently exchange energy between each other.
Related skills: blockchain, Ethereum, Solidity, React

Skills summary

Front-end & web development
JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, UI testing (Jest, Cypress)
Blockchain & cryptography
Smart contract development (Solidity, Ethereum), cryptographic techniques (zero-knowledge proofs, encryption), blockchain system architecture and security
Machine learning & AI
TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV, NumPy, self-supervised learning
Tools & practices
Git, Jira, Unity (C#), agile methodologies, CI/CD
Teaching & tutoring
Teaching of courses Introduction to Software Engineering and Blockchain and Decentralized Applications as part of the PhD studies. During my previous studies I created many tutoring YouTube videos across multiple courses to help my fellow students. The videos, totaling over 45 hours, have accrued more than 100 000 views.
Game development
Created multiple games with Unity Engine in C#. Nothing worth commercially publishing, mostly for my own entertainment and to learn something new. See link below.
More comprehensive list of my projects along with in-browser demos is available at https://lesamo.github.io/projects.