01Our Vision
To be a leading consulting partner for teams that need ethical cooperation, practical excellence, and calm guidance through complex technology decisions.
Still Waters / Prague
Driving Success with Smart Data and Jira Solutions
As still waters run deep, you'll swiftly sail your business while we handle the deep complexities. - S&M Defina
Innovative consulting solutions
Deep expertise. Clearer water ahead.
Still Waters helps teams transform complex operations through strategic planning, project management, analytical capability building, and technical implementation.
Our work joins practical consulting with smart data, Jira, and carefully applied automation, so your team can move with confidence while we handle the depth below the surface.
Strategy and delivery systemsData, Jira and AI workflows
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Personal partnership, practical technical depth.
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02Our Team
Experienced consultants bring analytical depth, delivery discipline, and personal ownership to help clients reach their operating goals.
03Our Approach
Data-driven consulting connects analytics, technology, and business context so decisions become visible and implementation stays grounded.
04Our Services
Strategy, operations, technology, and sustainable growth come together through custom solutions and careful technical implementation.
Selected work
Our Experiences
Products I have built, systems I have studied, and client environments where the work had to hold up in practice.
Products and client systems, shown in the interfaces where the work lives.
Live PlatformStill Waters Lab
Ancestors Atlas
A searchable world atlas, save decoder, Evolution field guide, and 297-node neuronal route planner for Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
Explore the Atlas
Staging PlatformStill Waters Lab
PawSense
A private-validation product comparison platform that keeps illustrative dog-colour modeling, product evidence, preference, and safety claims clearly separated.
Open Staging Platform
Live PlatformStill Waters Lab
Cookerage
An account-owned recipe ledger for capturing cooking videos, writing structured recipes, planning retries, and sharing bounded community-safe recipe views.
Browse Community Recipes
Open sourceStill Waters Lab
News Ledger
A provenance-first Node.js and SQLite record of news articles, revisions, reception, and evidence-backed classifications.
Public PortfolioAtlas Copco
Project: Atlas Copco
A Consultant's Journey: From Leuven to Antwerp with Atlas Copco, linking industrial excellence with data-driven transformation.
Public PortfolioMastercard
Project: Mastercard
Mastering Data at Mastercard: A Consultant's Perspective, from Prague onboarding to automation and lasting delivery impact.
Our products
Useful systems, explained in full.
Long-form product notes for teams connecting documentation, delivery, and decision-making.
2025-12-12 / Products
Jira and Power BI Integration: Streamline Your Analytics Workflow
The integration of Jira and Power BI redefines efficiency in today’s dynamic digital landscape, empowering teams to convert raw data into meaningful insights with unprecedented speed. This innovative fusion streamlines analytics workflows, enabling you to track project progress,
2025-12-12 / Products
Confluence ↔ NotebookLM Integration: Transform Documentation
Step into the future of efficient documentation where Confluence meets NotebookLM for a seamless, AI-enhanced workflow. This integration revolutionizes the way teams capture, synthesize, and manage content, ensuring that documentation is not only comprehensive but also instantly
2025-12-12 / Products
Introducing the Still Waters No-Code Tableau ↔ Jira Integration
Discover a new era in data visualization and project tracking with this revolutionary no-code integration between Tableau and Jira. Imagine effortlessly connecting your analytical dashboards to real-time project updates, eliminating time-consuming manual processes. This introduct
Journal
Latest writing
Data engineering / 2026-08-26
I built an append-only news ledger
I wanted a news record that could show what changed without quietly rewriting what it had already observed. That led to an append-only Node.js and SQLite ledger built around provenance, version fingerprints, and a strict public evidence boundary.
Python / 2026-08-26
I gave Conway's Life two views
I built Conway's Game of Life once, then put a terminal runner and an interactive Pygame view around the same bounded Python simulation. The interesting part wasn't drawing cells. It was deciding what both interfaces should share.
Automation / 2026-08-26
I timed the farm bot
My farm bot already worked, but its pumpkins, carrots, trees, and hay shared one traversal schedule. Sunflowers and cactus were not part of the baseline, so I stopped guessing about where to add them and measured the game instead.
Products / 2025-12-12
Jira and Power BI Integration: Streamline Your Analytics Workflow
The integration of Jira and Power BI redefines efficiency in today’s dynamic digital landscape, empowering teams to convert raw data into meaningful insights with unprecedented speed. This innovative fusion streamlines analytics workflows, enabling you to track project progress,
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