Since my childhood, I have always been drawn to computers. I’ve started with static and dynamic webpages using MySQL and PHP3. In high school, I’ve got the opportunity to create a webpage for one of the first Videoconference systems called VRVS. It was an ambitious project led by Prof. Harvey Newman from CALTECH. At that time I was part of a group called Virtual Collaboration propagating physics in Slovakia. I was working on a videoconference archiving system, management and reservation system, and Academic calendar. All projects were one of the kind services (at that time in ~2001) based on JavaScript, MySQL, and PHP.
After absolving University in Computer Science, I’ve got offered to work in DESY on beamline P02.1 . My task was to migrate old command-line-based hardware controls to a modern, Python-based graphical user interface. It was a very challenging environment requiring high-quality and stable Software solutions. After a few weeks, I delivered the first version of controlling software based on Tango backend and PyQt frontend. It was only possible due to the excellent collaboration of talented scientists and synchrotron beamline users. I spent two years in total developing control Software addressing the whole pipeline from collection to the evaluation of data.
With all the experience gained in Hardware Controls, I moved to the group of Prof. Henry Chapman in CFEL. This group is focusing on Coherent Imaging techniques. They were developing state-of-the-art Hardware setups and conducting experiments all over the world (LCLS, ESRF, SPring-8, …). I developed a Framework covering Hardware controls and data acquisition for every conducted experiment called Kamzik3. My biggest project besides experiments were Controls Software for tabletop X-Ray Microscope (SIGRAY) and custom build Magnetron sputtering machines (MAG).
After all those years in Academia, I decided to accept new challenges and start to work as a Freelancer in March 2022. I started to be more involved in the Open-source community as well. You can find some of my projects on GitHub, PIP or on StackOverflow.