Hi, I am Jarek.
You can find me in Berlin or roaming around Europe.
Who Am I?
Here are some bullet points about me.
- Software Engineer: I began exploring software in 1997. Fast forward a couple of decades, and I have extensive experience building various complex software systems. These range from search engines and web applications to electronic trading systems, low-latency processing platforms, and massive distributed data processing systems. Today, I run my own software consulting firm, Input Objects.
- Student of Applied Business Management: Running a business as a software engineer means I am learning business management on the fly. Taxes aside, managing a business is a fascinating and very challenging endeavor that keeps me sharp.
- Functional Programmer: I code in Scala daily and have a keen interest in OCaml and F#.
- Result-Oriented Generalist: While I have a preference for functional programming, I frequently work with Java, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Go.
- Privacy Aficionado: I turned my passion for online privacy into a product, Wide Angle Analytics. Check it out; it is a fairly priced, privacy-first, cookieless web analytics tool.
- Electronics Geek: With a formal education in electronics, computer engineering, and FPGA, there isn’t a day that goes by without me reading about interesting electronics, custom keyboards, and projects involving single-board computers like Raspberry Pi.
A tag cloud that would encompass my interests goes something like this (no particular order):
Scala, Java, software, web analytics, Elasticsearch, Solr, real-time analytics, Apache Pinot, Kafka, Kubernetes, Ansible, C#, F#, Go Lang, JavaScript, TypeScript, functional programming, entrepreneur, privacy.
Why is it 23?
It so happens to be my favourite number.
No, I don’t use it in my password, you don’t have to try 😉