My name is Richard Ivánek and for some time now (around 14 years, 8 professionally) I code. My primary languages are Rust, TypeScript and C#, but I also do C/C++, Haskell and Dart occasionally. I have a master's degree in theoretical physics, which I studied in the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague.
I've programmed professionally since my high school years. I've been self-employed since my university years and I've been working on several long-term (and a few short-term) projects.
I do all sorts of software development, I work with modern technologies (WebAssembly with Rust, WebGL, Svelte, Axum), distributed systems (Kubernetes, OpenShift), and even older technologies (Shoptet with jQuery). More details below.
Education
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Master of Theoretical Physics
Institute of Theoretical Physics, MFF UK
2020 - 2022
Bachelor of General Physics
MFF UK
2017 - 2020
Gymnázium Kroměříž
2009 - 2017
Languages (human)
- Czech - native
- English - for you to judge
- Russian - basic
Pracovní zkušenosti
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Chartium
Lead programmer
2020 - now
Coffeespot.cz
Programmer
2022 - now
Čokoládovna Janek
Programmer
2020 - now
Cimex
External programmer
2018 - 2023
Dataclue
Programmer
2016 - 2018
AVG Technologies
Part-time job in the Technology department
Summer of 2014
Programming languages
Rust
My favorite, I even wrote the code for my master's thesis in it.
TypeScript
My second most used language, I use it with several backend and frontend frameworks.
C#
My first "real" language. I used to create games in it. Then I moved to web and CLI applications. Now I even do Office COM Interop and Microsoft Graph API clients in it.
C/C++
I don't use these daily, but I refresh my knowledge of them from time to time to keep up with FOSS code.
Dart + Flutter
My and my colleagues shipped an iOS/Android app, but I don't see a future in this ecosystem.
Technologies
Linux
I daily drive it since Windowsu 10 released (yes, there's causality). I even admin a few Linux servers with RHEL derivatives such as AlmaLinux. Btw I use Arch.
Git
I use it for all my projects. I love it when it works, I am terrified of it when it gets in a state that's not easily recoverable, which thankfully doesn't happen that often anymore.
Docker/Podman
I utilize them both as a user and a developer, for distribution and deployment. I shipped a few Node and Rust projects with it. I also do Docker Compose.
Kubernetes/OpenShift
I've been using these for a relatively short time as of now, primarily to satisfy client requests.
Frontend frameworks
Svelte
My beloved, even this site uses it (the alpha version of Svelte 5 actually, I have no idea what "unstable" means).
React
I don't use it that often anymore, but I have to admit the recent development looks promising, so who knows.
jQuery
I work around it on Shoptet instances, but recently my work was to get rid of it and replace it with several browser APIs.
Backend frameworks
Axum
I often use it to create performant backends.
Warp
I used this before moving to Axum.
ASP.NET Core
I have written many backends in it, nowadays I use it mostly in older projects which I still maintain.
Nest.js
I maintained an Angular + Nest app. Not a biggest fan, but I understand why it's widely adopted.
Other
Godot
One of my favorite FOSS projects. I have some hours spent in it and I've also read a bigger chunk of it's codebase.
XNA/FNA/MonoGame
Frameworks that I literally grew up on. They helped me become a decent programmer.
Tauri
I experiment with it from time to time. I wrote an application launcher in it, which I daily drive for more than a year. I'm looking forward to mobile support.
This section is for those who are not looking for a CV, but rather just want to know more about me. I began programming in the sixth grade, when my classmate brought a calculator with BASIC support to school. My interest led me to a variant called Small Basic, with which I spent a lot of my free time home. I built a few text-based RPG games, but soon I began to feel limited by the language. So I then learned Visual Basic and WinForms, but that still wasn't quite it. I wanted to create real games, so I went with C# and XNA. I still have some of the early projects I tried with this language at the age of 13.
I kept using C# primarily until my university years, I prototyped a lot of games, but I always got bored of them in the end. In the meantime between projects, I learned web development, which is one of my primary sources of income these days. I originally worked with PHP and JavaScript, but soon I moved to ASP.NET and TypeScript. Today I barely use C#, I moved to Rust, in which I wrote my master's thesis program. Today I work on CLI deployment tools, high-performance applications, data processing programs and e-commerce process automation. I try to design web stuff from time to time, so I might still have some fun with this website ;)