Michal Samek

In RBMH I am part of a distributed team responsible for backend services. I assist product managers to understand requirements, define scopes and estimate efforts for our projects. Naturally, I am mostly involved in development. Our applications are designed to be reactive - underlying technology is Vert.x. Often they implement the API Gateway pattern or certain business processes. To keep the software quality high we embraced TDD, code reviews and put a great emphasis on creating a reusable, clean code.

I worked for Tern Systems on a project that was also my Master's thesis. The topic was optimization of an air traffic tracker. Thanks to this opportunity I became familiar with optimization evolutionary algorithms and algorithms for tracking maneuvering objects (based on Kalman filters and IMM algorithm).

During my part-time engagement in the research group, I was working on natural language processing scripts developed in python and automated via shell scripts. The processing input was mostly database dumps from Wikipedia or Freebase. In the later phase, I developed an analysis plugin for ElasticSearch; and got totally fascinated by how easy it was to run it in a clustered setup!

Information systems Web services