Resume

Languages:

• Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++, Lua, PHP, ...

AI:

• heuristic search, planning, Bayesian learning, deep belief networks, reinforcement learning

Databases:

• PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle

GNU/Linux:

• Unix shell and environment
• Vim, Mercurial, make, ctags, Firebug, ...

Networking:

• TCP/IP, HTTP, REST, XML-RPC, ...

• Implemented non-blocking TCP and SNMP monitoring.
• Implemented web crawlers and HTML parsers.
• Plotted and visualized flat prices in Prague.
• Used Google App Engine to store monitoring data.
• Developed a web application to manage millions of telephone directory ads.
• Used natural language processing to extract information from news sources.

Technologies used: Python, AJAX, Google APIs, Java, Spring, iBATIS

Released a web portal for IPTV set-top-boxes. Portal features:

• Advanced TV player, Electronic Program Guide, Network PVR, Self-Care and a Video on Demand store.
• Slick and fast AJAX GUI with data precaching.
• Session-less, secure cookie based authentication.
• Web services for content import and integration with billing systems.

Technologies used: Java, JavaScript, Python, AJAX, Spring, Hibernate, PostgreSQL

Member of an integration team:

• Implanted Vodafone live!, Xmas promos, new tariffs, ...
• Analyzed needed changes to existing systems.
• Improved legacy code to make it more readable, effective and elegant.

Technologies used: Java, C++, Python, JMS, SOAP, UML, XML Schema, XPath, TIBCO, Oracle PL/SQL

Mentor for younger programmers:

• Helped with design, development and release policy.
• Authored a guide how to develop a multi-threaded server.

Designed and developed:

• A problem solving contest web platform.
• A flexible server for SMS processing.
• A sever to guess geographic position of a mobile phone.
• Pocket self-care for mobile phones.
• SMS voting.
• A SMS-Centre emulator.

Technologies used: Java, C++, Python, PHP, OGNL, Pthreads, STL, Spring, Servlets, Tapestry, Hibernate, JDBC, MySQL, XML-RPC, DocBook

Fish Fillets - Next Generation: [http://fillets.sourceforge.net]

• Rewrote a successful logical game for Linux and other systems.
• The game contains 70 game levels with strong story.
• Dialogs and animation are driven by an embedded scripting language.
• Developed compiler from Pascal to Lua to speed up the conversion.
• Contributors translated the game to 14 languages.

Technologies used: C++, Lua, Python, STL, SDL

RoboHunt: [http://ivo.danihelka.net/python/]

• Developed a game with artificial hunters. The player has to hide and scurry.
• AI techniques of Particle Filters were used to make authentic hunters.
• Used optimized A* algorithm for path finding. That provided support for big number of agents.

Technologies used: Python, Pygame