❯ ~/szymon zsh
// from a studio on marszałkowska to the national philharmonic
szymon gwóźdź
❯ sound engineer · devops · lecturer · builder
national philharmonic × flightcore studios × movecloser
10yr+ experience
19× gold+platinum
570+ tracks
100+ DJ gigs
3+1 rec. studios
scroll down or press j
❯ cat about.md markdown
// section 01
self-taught on
steroids
First piano lesson - September 11, 2001. Then 12 years of music school in Katowice, organ studies, diploma with honours. In parallel - telecommunications technical school. Then Mix With The Masters with Emile Haynie at La Fabrique in France.
Today I run sound at the National Philharmonic, lecture at Warsaw Film School and ARD, and build infrastructure as a DevOps engineer at movecloser.
❯ cat roles.json json
{
"sound_engineer": "National Philharmonic",
"co_founder": "Flightcore Studios",
"lecturer": ["Warsaw Film School", "ARD"],
"devops": "movecloser",
"education": {
"music": "12 yrs Music School Katowice - organ",
"tech": "telecommunications technical school",
"masters": "MWTM, La Fabrique 🇫🇷",
"uni": null
}
}
❯ git log --oneline ~/life log
// section 02 - timeline
git log --oneline
2001
first piano lesson - September 11
2007
start: Music School I & II, Katowice
piano → organ, diploma with honours
2011
start: UK Hardcore DJ
2012
start: DJ-ing as djsamiryi
2013
support acts, event organizing - Silesia
Rap Night, Underground Silesia Rap, 100+ events
2015
join MaxFloRec studio, Katowice
recording engineer
2016
diploma: Music School Katowice + telecom technical school
2016
sound & lighting @ MDK Bogucice-Zawodzie, Katowice
FOH, DMX, live sound
2017
MaxFlo Scratch Session - 70 people, 16 turntables
2018
lighting engineer @ Teatr Rozrywki, Chorzów
GrandMA2
2019
Mix With The Masters - Emile Haynie, La Fabrique 🇫🇷
2020
join F-Light Studio → Capitol Theatre, Marszałkowska
2021
begin: building Flightcore Studios, Żoliborz
3 studios + mastering room
2022
join: National Philharmonic - sound engineer
2022
lectures @ Academy of Sound Production (2022–2025)
2023
Flightcore Studios - grand opening
2024
start: lectures @ Warsaw Film School
2026
join: movecloser - DevOps engineer
2026
deploy: szymongwozdz.pl
❯ find ~/photos -type f | shuf | head -12 gallery · 100+ shots
❯ btop --skills monitor
// section 03
skill monitor
audio engineering 95%
Live sound / FOH 95%
Studio recording 92%
Mixing / mastering 90%
Acoustics / room design 85%
Surround / immersive 75%
devops & infra 80%
Docker / Kubernetes 82%
Terraform / IaC 78%
AWS / GCP 80%
CI/CD pipelines 85%
Linux / networking 88%
development 75%
Rust 70%
Python / FastAPI 75%
TypeScript / React 72%
Astro / Next.js 68%
C++ (VST/audio) 55%
audio tools
Studio OnePro ToolsReaperDanteRavennaMerging HorusGrandMA2MADIAES/EBU
tech stack
DockerK8sTerraformCloudflareNginxGitHub ActionsAstroTailwindPostgreSQL
other
PCB designElectroacousticsPyTorchAI/MLHome AssistantAutomationTeachingNetworking
maxflo→capitol→flightcore→filharmonia→devops→maxflo→capitol→flightcore→filharmonia→devops→
maxflo→capitol→flightcore→filharmonia→devops→maxflo→capitol→flightcore→filharmonia→devops→
❯ ls ~/projects --featured list
// section 04
projects
01
Flightcore Studios
3 recording studios + mastering room - acoustics, IT infra, audio networking, website, systems
Dante/RavennaAstroCloudflareNetworkingDocker
running 02
codeyourpcb
code-first PCB design - write circuits as text, get autorouted boards and Gerbers
RustPCBOpen Source
30★ 03
filharmonia-ai
audio classification of concert recordings - PyTorch AST, 97.75% accuracy
PythonPyTorchFastAPIReact
ML 04
AltiverbSurroundWrapper
VST3 wrapper for 5.1 surround processing with Altiverb 7 XL in Studio One
C++VST3Audio
plugin 05
donata
self-hosted donation system for streamers - overlay, voting, Stripe/BLIK/P24
DockerStripeWebSocket
OSS 06
Starlight Auth + Typesense
Astro Starlight with MySQL auth, user roles and Typesense search
AstroMySQLTypesense
docs 07
Audio Optimization Guide
7-step Windows audio optimization guide
WindowsAudioGuide
guide ❯ cat ~/certyfikaty.csv csv
// section 05 - ZPAV certifications
gold & platinum
9× gold record · 10× platinum record
| status | title |
|---|---|
| 4× platinum | NICKI |
| 3× platinum | Semantyka |
| platinum | OSTATNI (Rojst'97 | Netflix) |
| platinum | Piacevole |
| platinum | ROMANTYK |
| platinum | OPTYMISTYCZNIE |
| gold | Mimosa |
| gold | MARYLIN MONROE |
| gold | SOPHIA LOREN |
| gold | Z ZIEMI WŁOSKIEJ DO POLSKI |
| gold | LEKARSTWO |
| gold | POWIETRZE ft. Sarius |
| gold | NICKI |
| gold | SO! FRESH |
| gold | ROMANTYK |
❯ ./connect.sh bash
// section 05
have an idea?
let's talk.
audio, tech, DevOps, something wild - drop a line.
$ cat contact.json
{
"email": "sami@flightcore.pl",
"github": "@szymontex",
"instagram": "@szymontex",
"flightcore": "flightcore.pl",
"location": "Warsaw 🇵🇱",
"status": "open for interesting stuff"
}
$