Hi! I'm Marek
After graduating as BSc and working for IBM Germany I decided to move abroad in 2011. I arrived in London at Last.fm and have now moved on to work at Gamevy. Enjoying both Backend and Frontend work I like to work on challenging projects and products I can believe in.
I spend a lot of my time walking through London listening to Science Fiction audio books (get in touch if you have any recommendations!). You might find me in a pub or sometimes at London Hackspace.
Things I'm good at
- Backend: Javascript, Java, PHP, SQL, Hadoop, (Python)
- Frontend: Javascript, CSS, (Objective-C, C++)
- Linux: Administration, Automation, Scaling, Monitoring/Graphing, HTTP, stupid BASH one-liners
- Prototyping/Hacking I love testing game mechanics
- Languages: English, German
Things I'm interested in
- Machine Learning
- Cryptography I once tried to write a public/private encryption from scatch in Delphi 3. It didn't work that well.
- Game Design
- Hardware Programming I wrote a lot of code for this
Things I did
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wortopia.de
Multiplayer boggle clone. Compete against other players by finding the most words on the board. Over 1800 active players find over 1M words every month.
[German]
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rapidletter.de
Online letter editor, with templates, account managment and PDF export, based on standard letter formats. Serves about 1000 letters each month.
[German]
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u r mash
Award-winning retro-style HTML5 racing game with multiplayer functionality and procedural map. From idea to finished game in 24h.
[Hackday team project]
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clientroomradio.com
Collective music streaming with chat, skip-voting and adaptive playlisting. Listening is invite only, sorry.
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YouChoose
A collaborative YouTube vide queue with reddit-style up- and down-voting. Made for a hackday in 2012 as an elaborate way to rickroll others.
[Hackday team project]
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last.fm/live
Charts that are never older than 10 seconds, based on what is scrobbled right now on the planet.
[side project, last.fm]
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last.fm/christmas
How many people are currently listening to Christmas songs?
[side project, last.fm]
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last.fm Data Exporter
Allows last.fm users to export their data. Uses Hadoop to collect and format the data in bulk and AWS SQS/SES/S3 to send the archives via email.
[side project, last.fm]
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Raphaël Icon-Font
Back in 2010 (before Font Awesome came around and did it much better) I've converted some icons into a font. It's still in heavy use.
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Rohrpost
A websocket server that allows multiple backend applications to share connections. Supports load-balancing, staggered restarts, pub/sub and session management.
[work project, gamevy]