Relay Atlas
A service health platform that turns noisy traces into clear operational signals for distributed teams.
Go · PostgreSQL · OpenTelemetry
Backend engineer · Helsinki, Finland
I build calm, reliable systems for products that need to scale.
I’m Milan Varek, a software engineer focused on distributed services, developer platforms, and practical infrastructure.
Available for selected projects in 2026
9+Years building production systems
14Services taken from sketch to scale
4Teams supported across Europe
Selected work
Systems designed to stay understandable.
I work where product decisions meet infrastructure: shaping boundaries, reducing operational friction, and leaving teams with systems they can confidently own.
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An internal developer platform that helped product teams ship services without learning the entire stack.
TypeScript · Kubernetes · Terraform
Experience
Engineering with context.
2023 — Now
Independent Software Engineer
Technical direction, backend systems, and platform foundations for small product teams.
2020 — 2023
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Led reliability work across a multi-tenant data platform and mentored a distributed team of six.
2017 — 2020
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Built event-driven services for logistics planning and replaced fragile batch workflows.
Working set
Tools are choices, not identity.
- Go
- Rust
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- NATS
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- OpenTelemetry
- Linux
- AWS
- GCP
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