• Worked at CERN, Brookhaven Nation Laboratory (BNL), RIKEN and received Ph.D. in applied mathematics.
  • Co-founded Recombee – Recommendation as a service.
  • Built Showmax, scaled the Engineering from 0 to 150 people. Navigated Showmax through IPO (un-bundling) process. This resulted in Showmax being part of newly created MultiChoice Group (MCG) listing on Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
  • Founded nibbler.AI – Machine Learning and Computer Vision startup.
  • Worked at IP Fabric, helped with scaling the network assurance company and its Engineering and Product teams.
  • Built MoistureGuard – the IoT platform for monitoring behavior of the wooden buildings.
  • Helped at MayaData to restructure Engineering team. MayaData is one of the prominent CNCF open-source companies.
  • Built nangu.TV – IPTV white-label system for Telcos.
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leadership

Strategy and vision

2025-04-28 Antonín Král
𝕎hen the organization grew1 beyond about 60 people, it felt different. We have agreed that a new management layer (between myself and tech-leads) is needed. But, I’ve started to lose a grip on … Read More →
leadership

Who should decide?

2025-03-06 Antonín Král
𝕀’ve come to like the saying “don’t ask for permission, ask for forgiveness”1. It reflects the reality that most decisions don’t need approval, and waiting for blessing … Read More →
philosophy

U+2234 -- The Story of the Symbol ∴

2025-01-12 Antonín Král
𝕎e don’t know when the symbol as such appeared. Probably very long ago. The triangle is a popular symbol in itself, and three points naturally present themselves as its symbol / representation. … Read More →
making

DC Motors, Limit Switches, and Diodes

2024-07-08
𝕆ur chicken coop door is controlled by an ESP8266 board running Tasmota. Tasmota allows for simple configuration of timers based on sunrise and sunset using timezone information. The door movement is … Read More →
leadership

The Power of Written Standup

2021-03-08 Antonín Král
𝕎ritten standup is a simple tool that can significantly improve how distributed teams work. It’s just what it sounds like: instead of meeting to talk, team members write down what they’re … Read More →
making

Traffic light without MCU

2019-07-07
𝕂ids wanted a working traffic light for one of their games. I took it as a good reason to hide in the workshop and produced one showed on the video below. […] This is super-simple project, why … Read More →
making

Smarwi

2017-11-28
ℙodlehl jsem impulznímu nákupnímu rozhodnutí a pořídil smarwi external link . Celou akci spustil Petr Stehlík external link , který postnul link na recenzi produktu serverem Geniální … Read More →
computers

Tracing distributed systems at Showmax

2016-10-21
𝕎e have opted for a micro-service paradigm on our back-end. This means that different parts of the API accessible by end-user applications are handled by different services running on our application … Read More →

TILs

computers

Creating beautiful two-column PDFs with Markdown, Pandoc and Typst

2024-12-01
ℂonverting Markdown document to PDF with Pandoc and Typst Read More →
computers

Docling

2024-11-03
𝔻ocling is a MIT licensed document parser, OCR and converter from IBM Deep Search Team. They provide simple CLI tool as well as Python bindings. Read More →
computers

Backups with restic and rclone

2020-03-03
𝕀 have started using restic external link backup about 2 years ago. I have learned recently, that some of my colleagues are not aware of its existence or not aware of tight integration with … Read More →
computers

Simple GIT identities (overrides in general) management

2019-07-26
𝕀 need to be committing intro different repositories under different user identities. To Open Source ones with my private email, while using work email for work-related commits/repos. Typically, you … Read More →
computers

exim4 and multiple GMail accounts

2018-02-08
𝕞utt is my preferred client for reading and writing mails. And I do have multiple accounts, some on my private server some on GMail (private as well as business). Initial setup was using my private … Read More →

Extras
  • Deník Jana Münze – Unikátní pohled do života prvorepublikového chlapce z Příbrami. Jan neměl šanci jej dokončit.

Jaroslava Králová je klinická psycholožka. Pracovala jako kurátor mládeže, přednášela na Katedře psychologie FF UPJŠ v Košicích a na Lékařské fakultě UP v Olomouci. Dále jsou volně přístupné některé její publikace.

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