About Us

Hi, I'm Radek – a software engineer, a West Coast Swing dancer and the person behind spotlight.cam.

Despite the very official "About Us" in the menu, at the moment "us" is just... me 😅 One-person team, many hats.

Spotlight.cam is a project built by someone who actually stands in the same registration lines, dances in the same heats and scrolls through the same event pages as you :P

If we ever meet at an event, I'll probably be somewhere near the dance floor, probably pressing "record" on someone's spotlight.

To be fair, the original idea for this service was actually dropped on me by a friend who was tired of hunting for someone to film her dances – I just did what any backend developer / DevOps / Linux admin would do: said "okay, that shouldn't be that hard... right?", opened my editor, set up a few servers and scripts... and suddenly we had a new project on our hands 😅 I also had a not-so-secret teammate: AI. Without it, this would probably still be stuck in my "one day" folder for about a year 😄

If you’re into WCS nerdy stuff, you might also like my open-source WSDC Event Results Analyzer – a tool for exploring and visualizing competition placements – or gdzienawesta.com, a calendar that collects upcoming West Coast Swing events in Warsaw (and, who knows, maybe one day across all of Poland).

More about me: socials, contact options, and CV are at radoslaw.gierwialo.com