Who Am I?

Hey there, welcome to my page!

You could end up on this website for a few different reasons, but if you are here just for the tech articles (blog) then you can skip this one ;) However, If you are here because I included the link to this page on my CV this is the best place to learn more about me as a human being and how I ended up in IT.

So, the whole story is a bit long and I want to keep it for the typical "tell me something about you" interview question, so here's a shortened version.

My IT journey started when I was ~14ish. That's why when I got my first PC (it was actually a laptop but soon after that I managed to get a PC too) and since the day one it was something interesting for me.

For the first 2 or 3 years, I didn't have any internet connection that's why after a few weeks of just playing Solitare and trying to find my artistic side in Windows Paint I started learning how this thing works under the hood. Believe me or not, back then, when I manage to first install Windows all by myself it was a magical moment. It escalated quickly from then. I started learning how hard disks work, what is partitioning, what is the difference between FAT(32) and NTFS, what to do when my Windows don't want to boot, etc, etc.

When I was already comfortable with Windows and had a general understanding of how it works I started looking at Linux. It took me a good few months of reading about it before I attempted installing my first Linux distro. That was another breakthrough in my IT journey. After that, I was already 100% sure that this is what I want to do in my life - be an IT engineer.

Now, after over 10 years in IT I am still learning and I still have that "wide spectrum of interests". I consider myself 60% Systems Engineer (that includes Network Engineering, Platform Engineering and nowadays Cloud Native Engineering), 30% Developer (by now I know Python, JavaScript and Ruby quite well, I am learning Go and Rust right now but I am also familiar with Full Stack development, I build my own startup www.rentheview.com in Ruby on Rails all by myself, but I'm also not a stranger to Node.js, Vue.js and few other JS frameworks) and 10% a Leader. On top of that, if I have some free time to spare I like playing with many other areas of IT like Machine Learning, IoT or Blockchain.

As you may also guess from the image of this post, I like to share my knowledge. I speak at conferences and meetups, I try to organize often internal demos and mini learning sessions, I write articles here and on medium.com and I contribute to open-source.