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Lukáš Kianka

Senior Product Manager | 10+ years | AI-Powered Product Builder from Idea to Production

Hourly: 4055

Level: Expert

Registered: 30.01.2025

Availability: As needed, Full-time / contract

I bridge end-to-end technical execution with a senior product mandate - deep architectural fluency, hands-on leadership, and the ability to build and validate using modern AI workflows.

As a Senior Product Manager and Product Builder with 10+ years of experience, I own product strategy, roadmaps, and full P&L across complex, regulated B2B/B2C SaaS environments - partnering with engineering on their own terms, not just handing off specs. Alongside that mandate, I've built functional fluency with modern AI-assisted development (Claude Code, agentic workflows) to shorten the distance between business hypotheses and working systems - aligning technical implementation with commercial strategy, or shipping end to end to accelerate market validation.

TRACK RECORD

  • Shipped E2E AI-native products & frameworks using Claude Code, deploying multi-tenant SaaS, production RAG applications with eval and launch gates (pgvector/HNSW), and custom agentic plugins via MCP servers with automated GitHub CI/CD pipelines.
  • Scaled a loyalty SaaS to 60k+ active users and €3M+ ARR, cutting churn by ~20%.
  • Closed a €600k+ US AI partnership via a 10-month C-level negotiation, leading the 9-month cross-org migration of 20+ people without formal authority.
  • Rescued a B2C SaaS platform from discontinuation via continuous discovery, rebuilding its 3-year strategy/roadmap with full P&L inside Energetika Slovensko.
  • Co-founded a healthcare venture from zero to 1,200+ patients on a €50k investment.

WHAT I BRING

  • Senior Product Mandate: full ownership of strategy, roadmap, scaling, delivery, sustainability, business metrics and stakeholder management across regulated, high-stakes environments.
  • Hands-on Product Build: prototype or ship directly when velocity demands it - multi-tenant architecture, RAG-based conversational products, data pipelines, evals, LLM integration, coding agents with GitHub-based CI/CD.
  • Complexity Navigation: fluent in business and deep engineering language - domain modeling, system architecture, GDPR-driven data-boundary design - across regulated domains (energy, healthcare).
  • Global Cross-Functional Leadership: directing engineering, data, UX, marketing and legal teams, including cross-organizational leadership without formal authority.
  • Founder-Level Execution & Accountability: three ventures built from scratch, full personal ownership of finance, operations and technology.

A few things about how I tend to operate: I think in systems rather than features. I prefer evidence over opinions. I take short-term discomfort if it means long-term relevance. And nothing gets handed off - execution is seen through to the outcome.

In practice: I align people across functions, make decisions quickly, and turn chaos into execution.

Education

  • Master's degree, Informatics
    Technical University of Košice (2016 – 2018)
  • Bachelor's degree, Informatics
    Technical University of Košice (2013 – 2016)

Portfolio

1. ElektroZoom (elektrozoom.sk)

Role: Product Manager (Energetika Slovensko / VSE)

B2C SaaS Home Energy Management platform serving Slovak households with consumption insights, appliance disaggregation, and predictive analytics. Built in technology partnership with Bidgely (US AI-powered energy analytics).

  • Closed €600k+ multi-year US partnership through 10-month C-level negotiation (full SoW, SaaS Agreement, SLA)
  • Scaled portfolio from 40k to 60k+ active users, €3M+ ARR; reduced churn by ~20%
  • Led E2E platform migration as primary delivery authority (20+ people, ~€100k budget, steering committee reporting)

2. MediOps (mediops.eu)

Role: Founder, Full-Stack Product Builder

B2B multi-tenant practice management SaaS for GP clinics.

MediOps replaces spreadsheets and paper notes as the operational system of record for an entire healthcare practice - patient lifecycle, HR/payroll, finance, growth analytics and AI-assisted clinical workflows in one place. Every requirement is grounded in running the clinic itself, not in interviewing someone who does.

  • Architected and shipped solo, end to end - domain model, architecture, UX, implementation, deployment and operations - built primarily with Claude Code.
  • Engineered a real-time preventive-care eligibility engine computing patient status across seven states from insurance-cycle rules.
  • Enforced a GDPR-driven PII boundary on the AI layer at two independent code layers - clinical data never leaves self-hosted inference, only non-sensitive data reaches the Claude API - behind an agentic assistant querying live data through whitelisted tool functions.
  • Designed a secure multi-tenant backend architecture: invite-code-gated registration (SSO + 2FA), PostgreSQL row-level security, org-scoped RBAC.

3. Pureinn RAG Chat (chat.pureinn.eu)

Role: Founder, Full-Stack Product Builder

RAG conversational product for the Pureinn framework, with a real-time operations console built on top.

  • Engineered a hybrid retrieval engine: semantic search (pgvector, HNSW) fused with PostgreSQL full-text search via Reciprocal Rank Fusion.
  • Designed a two-tier automated evaluation harness (retrieval accuracy, then LLM-as-judge) as a data-backed launch gate, clearing a 90% retrieval-accuracy target on first real measurement.
  • Built a real-time console for live pipeline monitoring - ingestion health, GitHub-based CI/CD and content-sync status, evaluation history - with access design driven by blast radius rather than convenience.

3. Vezmee (vezmee.com)

Role: Co-Founder, Product Lead

P2P last-mile delivery platform connecting senders with travelers already on the same route. Leverages existing trips for same-day delivery at lower cost - no dedicated logistics overhead.

  • E2E product ownership: strategy, UX, domain modeling, business logic, financial frameworks
  • Cross-functional team of 4 (designer, fullstack devs, architect)
  • Stage: pre-MVP readiness, investor-track preparation (SK-NACE financing)

4. Váš Všeobecný Lekár (mudrkiankova.sk)

Role: Co-Founder, Technology & Business Lead (MediMark s.r.o.)

Greenfield GP practice in Slovakia. Full ownership of everything outside the clinical scope - business operations, technology architecture, finance, automation, branding.

  • Scaled from zero to 1,200+ registered patients on €50k initial investment
  • Built proprietary internal SaaS tooling (MediOps) replacing spreadsheets and fragmented tools
  • Self-managed platform infrastructure: Vercel CI/CD, Traefik, Docker, Twingate zero-trust access

5. Pureinn - AI Product Development Framework (pureinn.eu)

Role: Founder

Six years of end-to-end product development methodology, packaged as a Claude Code plugin.

  • Engineered the framework as a durable system of context, tools and rules: 50+ specialist skills across three structured playbooks (Greenfield, Feature Implementation, Rebuild), with opt-in autonomous subagent execution, extended via MCP servers.
  • Designed a single just-in-time interrogation pass where criticality signals (KANO class, money/PII exposure, state-transition count) set discovery depth, security-specialist routing and test strategy - collapsing the path from idea to a buildable, well-specified product.
  • Built verification into the pipeline itself: build and review agents routed conditionally by security and test dimension, with a coverage check reconciling what should have run against what did.
  • Engineered a three-repo release pipeline (framework, CLI, docs site) with synced semantic versioning and automated deployment.

Awards, certifications

  • IBM AI Product Manager Professional Certificate
    Issued by IBM | May 2025 | Credential ID: 0RUPJPK2GQNT

  • CCNP Routing – Implementing IP Routing
    Issued by Cisco Networking Academy | Jan 2018

  • CCNP Switching – Implementing IP Switching
    Issued by Cisco Networking Academy | Jan 2018

  • CCNP R&S TSHOOT – Maintaining and Troubleshooting IP Networks
    Issued by Cisco Networking Academy | Jan 2017

  • CCNA Exploration 4 – WAN Technologies
    Issued by Cisco Networking Academy | Jan 2016

  • CCNA Exploration 3 – LAN Switching and Wireless
    Issued by Cisco Networking Academy | Jan 2016

  • CCNA Exploration 2 – Routing Protocols and Concepts
    Issued by Cisco Networking Academy | Jan 2016

  • CCNA Exploration 1 – Network Fundamentals
    Issued by Cisco Networking Academy | Jan 2015

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Hourly: 4055

Level: Expert

Registered: 30.01.2025

Availability: As needed, Full-time / contract