This week we welcome Miro Hrončok (@hroncok) as our PyDev of the Week! Let’s take a look at how he first began using Python and his experiences at Red Hat.
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This week we welcome Miro Hrončok (@hroncok) as our PyDev of the Week! Miro teaches at Czech Technical University and helps out with the local PyLadies chapter. He is also involved with the Special Interest Group for Python in Fedora as he works for Red Hat in addition to his teaching position. You can check out some of the projects he is involved in over on Github or check out his website. Let’s take a few moments to get to know Miro better!
I’m a guy from Prague, Czech Republic, in my late twenties, yet both of my parents are from Košice, Slovakia, so I’m kinda both Czech and Slovak. I’ve studied Pascal at a gymnasium and later did my Bachelor’s and Master’s in Computer Science/Software Engineering at the Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague. Most of my hobbies are related to computers and technology but apart from that I have two Irish Wolfhounds and I love to ski.
My technological interest has always been connected to Free and Open Source Software (and Hardware), starting with the Czech Linux community when I was a teenager, co-founding the RepRap 3D Printing Lab during my early years at the university, and joining Fedora and later Red Hat, now working in the Python Maintenance team, and being pro-active in the Czech Python community.
Python somehow sprung to the surface everywhere where I was doing something. Whether it was some basic Linux utilities or several RepRap oriented apps, it happened to be written in Python (or Perl). I liked the Python syntax a bit more and since I was already familiar with multiple languages such as C, C++, Java, Pascal, and even PHP, I decided to give Python a try. Accidentally, I got the Czech translation of Dive Into Python 3 by Mark Pilgrim for free at some Czech Linux conference, so that was my primary source of wisdom.
Apart from the already mentioned languages, I mostly work in (Bourne Again) Shell. I don’t think I have a favorite programming language other than Python, but I love both TeX and OpenSCAD (not “programming” languages, per se).
