Resume

Education

1991-1996: Study of computer science at Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.
1996: Master degree in computer science, excellent rating. Master thesis focused on logic programming.
1996-1998: Post-graduate study of computer science at Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University, focused on logic programming. Quit unfinished.

Employment

1995-1998: Partially employed at Foresta SG. a.s. Working as a system administrator and programmer. Administration of various Unix systems, especially GNU/Linux. GIS related programming and programming of system administration utilities. Programming in C/C++, AWK, shell, Python on Unix and MS Windows.
1998-1999: Employed at PVT, a.s., the Internet division (PVT.NET). Development of internal tools supporting ISP operation, mostly based on the PostgreSQL and MySQL database engines and the Python language environment, running on GNU/Linux systems.
2000-2001: Employed at Qbizm technologies, a.s. One of the core designers and developers of the Web development component toolkit called HyperQbs. Work on documentation processing and testing utilities. Development in Java/J2EE, using XML, GNU/Linux platform.
2001-2002: Free-lance work. One of the core designers and developers of a framework for customizable and efficient specification of screen forms with database bindings defined by specifications written in Python. The framework served for implementation of the banking and accounting system EBAS. It was implemented using Python, PostgreSQL, wxWindows, Lout. Design and implementation of a simple intranet Web based information system.
2002-: Employed at BRAILCOM, o.p.s. Continued work on the EBAS project framework. Later work on software projects for the blind and visually impaired, mostly within the scope of the Free(b)soft project. Namely: Cooperation on the design of Speech Dispatcher and the SSIP protocol; primary author of the speechd-el speech output user interface to Emacs; primary author of the festival-freebsoft-utils package extending functions provided by the Festival speech synthesis system; primary author of the Czech software synthesis implemented in the Festival speech synthesis system; maintenance of the related Debian packages; implementation of a simple e-mail based bug tracking system.

Voluntary Projects

1996-: Debian developer.
2001-2002: GNU GNATS maintainer.

Besides this, I participated on the following smaller projects:

Czech support for Emacs: the emacs-czech package and later the Czech supporting files in Emacs distribution
New Prolog mode for Emacs
Xtla -- Emacs support for the GNU Arch revision control system
Automated conversion of Python documentation to Info format
gnats2w -- yet another Web interface to GNU GNATS

I also use to submit small patches to many other pieces of software I use.

Experience And Special Skills

I have got direct experience in the following roles:

Software design
Software implementation
Documentation writing, processing and reviewing
Automated software testing
Packaging and integration
Free Software project leadership

Software development areas:

System programming
System administration utilities
Database programming (SQL)
Application and user interface programming
Web programming
GIS programming
Bug tracking systems
Software packaging and distribution

Programming languages and techniques:

Procedural programming (C, C++)
Logic programming (Prolog, Mercury)
Declarative programming (Prolog, Mercury, SQL)
Object oriented programming (Common Lisp, Python, Java, C++)
High-level programming (Common Lisp, Elisp, Python, CLIM)
Scripting (shell, AWK, Python)

I like work involving interesting challenges, providing opportunities to learn new things and demanding competence rather than quick and dirty solutions.

Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>
Last modified: 2009-02-19 08:18 UTC.