Curriculum vitae

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* Designing process for [[APIReviews]] which allowed [[NetBeans]] to design [[API]]s in a ''committee'' and still keep consistency.
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* Designing process for [[netbeans:APIReviews|API Reviews]] which allowed [[NetBeans]] to design [[API]]s in a ''committee'' and still keep consistency.
* Designing, advocating and implementing [[netbeans:HgParallelProjectIntegration|parallel integration]] which greatly improved productivity of [[NetBeans]] developers
* Designing, advocating and implementing [[netbeans:HgParallelProjectIntegration|parallel integration]] which greatly improved productivity of [[NetBeans]] developers
* Enabling, promoting and advocating [[TDD|test driven development]] to increase quality of [[NetBeans]] code base
* Enabling, promoting and advocating [[TDD|test driven development]] to increase quality of [[NetBeans]] code base

Revision as of 16:07, 22 January 2015

Jaroslav Tulach

Town: Praha, Czech Republic

Phone: +420 602 684 426

email: jtulach (at) netbeans (domain) org

Contents

Historical Summary

Time Mission
2010-2014 NetBeans Platform architect at Oracle. Alignment with JDeveloper. Synergy between Java and JavaScript - use HTML inside of NetBeans.
1999-2010 NetBeans Platform architect at Sun Microsystems. Primary focus APIs, APIReviews, later Performance.
1997-1999 Founder and initial architect of NetBeans
1995-1997 Initial member of student team which started Xelfi which later turned into NetBeans
1992-1998 Master degree in computer science at MFF UK. Specialization: compilers and data structures.

Personal Profile

NetBeans founder and initial architect who remained (after being acquired by Sun) with the project for next fifteen years. Passionate about leading teams into projects nobody thinks can succeed, overcoming all obstacles and bringing them into production:

Based on success of previous projects I decided to bring Java back to browser via my Bck2Brwsr project. Things seem to work quite well, but the project has not entered production stage yet.

Theoretical Work

Media:Typing_in_terms_of_graphs.pdf - master thesis at MatFyz describing type system similar to what later became Generics in Java.

Proofs of NP-Completeness of various topics related to modularity with practical implications for any module system.

Publications & Conferences

Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBean Platform - contributed few philosophical chapters to book about NetBeans Platform.

Practical API Design, Apress 2008 - the first book about API Design describing all details related to API design published way sooner than the term API was kidnapped by REST and JSON guys.

20 API Paradoxes, Walrus 2012 - shorter, more strictly organized continuation/summary of Practical API Design book.

Regular speaker at JavaOne and other conferences (GeeCON, GeekOut, JDD) and universities.

Technical Skills

  • Able to use debugger to analyze anything
  • Typing without looking at keyboard
  • Knowledge of classical languages (especially Java, but also C & etc.), functional languages (like Haskell) and logical languages (e.g. Prolog).
  • Driving license - personal cars

Organizational Skills

Languages

  • Czech - native
  • English - OK
  • Russian - can read

Key Achievements

Work Experience

Spare Time Activities

Skiing and showboarding and other sports. Bck2Brwsr VM.

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