Hi, I'm Paweł!

A versatile tech-enthusiast, not-so-versatile painter, writer and gamer.

If you couldn't tell from the heading, I had actually used a type-writer for writing some of my books.

Coming back to tech-side of my life, however, the story begins when I was nine years old and received my first used PC - the kind equipped with a CRT monitor and a famous Turbo button.

My first ever introduction to programming was Pascal, but I never took a liking to it and swiftly moved on.

Then, in my teens, I developed simple CLI apps in C++ on Windows. It helped me grasp the idea and the benefits of an object-oriented approach to development. Most of those were text-based adventure games, some were actually of some utility and helped me remember English vocabulary, for instance. Also in my teens I began dabbling in web development, but the technology at that point wasn’t as convenient as it is today. I had to put up with FTP file transfers using Total Commander and paying outrageous fees for hosting out of my own pocket.

At Allegro, I mostly focused on learning Python. I am the author and a sole maintainer of an open-source file converter. This project-based path lead me to discover technologies such as Docker (and its competitor Podman) and concepts such as unit-testing and distributed work systems.

I would like to continue learning not only on my spare time, as I do currently, but in a professional capacity as a programmer.