Bc. Jiří Szkandera

C++ Programmer in Workswell

Education

Czech Technical University in Prague

Currently studying Engineer’s (Ing.) degree in Knowledge Engineering at the Faculty of Information Technology
2019 – now

Czech Technical University in Prague

Obtained Bachelor's (Bc.) degree with honors (average grade 1.1, received Dean's Award for outstanding final thesis) in Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Information Technology
2019 – 2022

Piano, Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in Prague

2015 – 2019

Languages

  • Czech (Native)
  • English FCE (C1 level)

Work Experience

Programmer

2022 September – now
CDN77
  • TDB

Assistant professor

2022 February – now
CTU
  • Assistant professor teaching computer vision course at the Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University

Embedded C++ Programmer

2020 July – 2022 September
Workswell
  • Embedded C++ programmer
  • Development of a new thermal camera based on the Xilinx Zynq platform
  • Programming Linux drivers for custom FPGA cores
  • Custom Linux kernel compilation (Yocto distribution)

PLC Programmer

2017 March - 2017 December
ABB
  • PLC controller programmer
  • Migration of old UNIX-based systems to 800xA proprietary ABB solution

PC Builder

2011 August - 2012 September
Project Lifetable
  • Building PCs from separate components

Side projects

Harmonia

I’m running a website called Harmonia where I’ve gathered all of my knowledge about music theory and history. The website was created to help my classmates pass the Maturita exam.

Skills & Proficiency

Programming skills

  • Adequate programming skills in C, C++, Python, Bash
  • Ability to program multithreaded applications
  • Computer science background, including familiarity with more advanced concepts such as flows, degrees of graph connectivity and pairing
  • Adequate knowledge of SQL language

Machine learning

  • Great knowledge of traditional machine learning methods
  • Currently studying neural networks on CTU and Charles University

Image processing

  • Experience with solving computer vision problems using image processing algorithms, including more exotic ones such as active contour models, Random Walker, and superpixel algorithms (Felzenszwalb, SLIC, Quickshift)
  • GStreamer

DevOps

  • Advanced computer network skills
    • College Cisco networking courses
    • Experience with Cisco device administration
    • VLANs, STP, Etherchannel, RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, DHCP, FHRP, IVR, DNS, NAT, IPv6
  • Advanced Git knowledge
    • Maintaining git repositories in Workswell
    • Organizing training sessions on how to use Git properly
  • Experience with Docker (creator and maintainer of docker images in Workswell)

Linux

  • Everyday experience with Arch Linux
    • Wrote custom scripts to optimize the setup (package synchronization, auto-archive extraction, …)
    • Using dwm tiling window manager with custom window scenes written by myself
    • Current setup can be found on the Gitlab repository
  • Experience with kernel driver programming
    • Wrote drivers that have been servicing custom FPGA IP cores
    • Self-taught
  • Linux on ARM64

Certification

  • Cambridge Assessment English: FCE (C1 level)
  • Oracle Academy: Database Design and Programming with SQL