About
Laszlo Popovics
Twenty-five years rebuilding systems. Datacenters first, then organizations, and now a body. 175 articles since 2015.
I started as an airplane radar engineer at a military school, then taught myself IT because I wanted to know how the systems underneath actually worked. That curiosity has not changed. What changed is which system I point it at.
Twenty-five years of that went into infrastructure. Then organisations. Now the body. The method travelled with me each time.
Infrastructure
Twenty-five years in technology, most of it in finance — banking operations across the Caribbean and Central Europe. Storage arrays, converged networks, real-time distributed systems. I learned that most architecture problems are not technical. They are decisions made too early, by people who had not yet met the constraint.
Organization
I led engineering teams of up to a hundred people. Self-organized teams, mostly, which is harder than it sounds and more rewarding than it pays. That work won a Gold Medal in the Future Proof Organizations competition — as the only participant from outside HR.
I introduced open source into a large banking group against the resistance of its own IT leadership, and cut costs by up to ninety percent doing it. I have written 175 articles about why that resistance exists and what it costs.
Body
The third system is the one I am still working on. Seven years of failed lifestyle changes, weight oscillating between 88 and 107 kilograms, until I understood that the corporate atmosphere was the root cause and not the excuse. What works, it turns out, is the same method: assemble the measurements, find the constraint, remove it, verify.
That work is published daily, in the open, as it happens.
Currently
Building AIvantGuard — trust and privacy infrastructure for the next web. I also teach agentic coding, and spend too much time on inference optimization and quantization.
Elsewhere
Follow the transformation
The third system, published daily as it happens.