Curriculum vitae

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Jaroslav Tulach

Town: Praha, Czech Republic

Phone: +420 602 684 426

email: jtulach (at) netbeans (domain) org

Contents 1 Historical Summary 2 Personal Profile 3 Theoretical Work 4 Publications 5 Technical Skills 6 Languages 7 Key Achievements 8 Work Experience 9 Spare Time Activities

Historical Summary

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

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:

• NetBeans IDE - first IDE for Java written in Java
• NetBeans Platform - first Swing based modular application framework
• NetBeans performance - speeding NetBeans 6.1 startup by 60%
• Netbinox - changing NetBeans architecture to support OSGi by creating the fastest OSGi framework on the planet
• JDeveloper - rebasing years of development on top of NetBeans Platform to gain startup speed and share functionality

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

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.

Technical Skills

• Able to use debugger to analyze anything
• Typing without looking at keyboard

Languages

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

Key Achievements

Work Experience

Spare Time Activities

Skiing and showboarding and other sports. Bck2Brwsr VM.