Darius J Chuck / Resume

Dariusz Jędrzejczak

Personal details

• Name pronunciation: Daryush Yeh-J-Chuck
• Internationalized name: Darius J Chuck
• E-mail: darius.j.chuck
• Portfolio: https://djedr.github.io/projects.html
• Home page: https://djedr.github.io
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darius-j-chuck
• GitHub: https://github.com/djedr

Summary

• Programming since 2004, wide experience and interests
• Master of Engineering in Computer Science
  • Specializing in interactive systems, simulations, and games
• 4+ years of professional experience:
  • TomTom Germany, Samsung R&D, Mobica Limited, University of Edinburgh, an American startup
  • Data processing, web applications, human-machine interfaces, functional programming research
  • Full-stack: front-end and back-end; TypeScript & JavaScript (React, Redux, AngularJS, Node.js), HTML, CSS, Scala (Akka, Play), Java (Spring), Python, PostgreSQL, MySQL, JSON, XML, REST API, Docker, AWS, Azure, …
• Took a career detour to explore original ideas:
  • TAO https://xtao.org – various software projects, technical blog
  • Jevko https://jevko.org – minimal general-purpose syntax
  • λDNA, LAST https://xtao.org/last.html – extremely minimal programming languages
• Interested in:
  • Teaching, writing, creating digital content
  • Learning about AI, LLMs, machine learning, etc.
  • Syntax, data formats, structured communication
  • Functional programming languages
  • Web applications and frameworks
  • Interactive applications, simulations, computer games

Experience

Specialist

ZSiPONTWŁ w Łodzi | Łódź, Poland | 2024-03 to present

• Onsite, fixed-term, part-time (weekends)
• Technical college (technikum) https://nowoczesnaszkola.edu.pl
• Teaching future programmers

Creator, Researcher

TAO | Łódź, Poland | 2020 to present

• Self-employed
• Creating digital content: writing, videos
• Teaching programming
• Original projects:
  • TAO https://xtao.org – cultivating simplicity in software. Umbrella for various software projects and a technical blog
  • Jevko https://jevko.org – a versatile minimal syntax for encoding tree-structured information as human-friendly text
  • λDNA, LAST https://xtao.org/last.html – extremely minimal programming languages

Senior Software Engineer

Standard Notes | Chicago, Illinois, USA | 2021-02 to 2021-05

• Fully remote, B2B, 24-32 h/week
• American startup creating an end-to-end encrypted note-taking app
• Backend development in TypeScript with Docker
• Worked on crypto, auth, files
• Open-source https://github.com/standarius?from=2021-12-01&to=2021-12-31

Software Engineer

TomTom Germany | Berlin, Germany | 2018-10 to 2019-12

• Mostly onsite, some hybrid, permanent, full-time
• Full stack development. Mainly back-end. Web applications for data processing and fusion. Internal tools for data visualization (front-end, back-end, design, architecture)
• Scala (Spring, Akka, Play), Java, TypeScript (React), Python, web applications, data fusion, processing, analysis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Docker, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Development and maintenance of multiple web application back-ends
• JSON REST API design and implementation
• Coordination with multiple teams, e.g. internal consumers of our APIs
• Documentation, design, development and optimization of a data-heavy front-end application

Software Engineer

TomTom Polska | Łódź, Poland | 2017-02 to 2018-10

• Onsite, permanent, full-time
• Maps and location
• Front-end focus (JavaScript, TypeScript, React + Redux):
  • A CRUD app. Main developer. From inception to release
  • A data visualization tool. Main developer
• Back-end (Scala, Spring, Akka, Play):
  • Web apps for data fusion and processing. One of the main developers
  • Maintenance, extension, development from scratch, JSON API design and implementation
  • Maintenance of related projects: auxiliary apps in Java, XML schemas, etc.
  • Data analysis (various scripts, Node.js + Bash), Docker, AWS, Azure

Junior Software Engineer

Mobica Limited | Łódź, Poland | 2016-02 to 2016-05

• Onsite, mandate contract, Talent as a Service company
• Automotive industry
• Human-Machine Interface (UI) application for an embedded system using JavaScript, Node.js, AngularJS, Gulp.js, Git + Gerrit, IBM Rational
• Operated specialized software for communicating with and manipulating the target device

Engineer

Samsung Electronics Polska | Warsaw, Poland | 2015-09 to 2015-12

• Onsite, mandate contract, front-end focus, R&D
• Healthcare webapp
• Completed HIPAA training
• Web application development using JavaScript, Node.js, AngularJS, Gulp.js, Java, Spring, Gradle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Git + Gerrit, Confluence, JIRA

Trainee

Samsung Electronics Polska | Łódź, Poland | 2015-06 to 2015-08

Researcher

University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, Scotland | 2014-08 to 2014-09

• Onsite, full-time IAESTE traineeship, certified
• Worked on Links https://links-lang.org, a research web programming language
• Learned and wrote JavaScript, Haskell, OCaml
• Significantly sped up JavaScript compilation in Links and built and evaluated the performance of a number of games written in Links
• Open-source https://github.com/djedr?from=2014-12-01&to=2014-12-31

Education

Master of Engineering in Computer Science

Łódź University of Technology | Łódź, Poland | 2015 to 2016

• Specialization: Interactive System and Games Technology
• Onsite, full-time
• GPA: 4.71/5.0
• Thesis:
  • Title: Dual: a web-based, Pac-Man-complete hybrid text and visual programming language
  • Grade: 5/5
  • https://djedr.github.io/masters_thesis.pdf

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

Łódź University of Technology | Łódź, Poland | 2011 to 2015

• Specialization: Computer Simulation and Games Technology
• Onsite, full-time
• GPA: 4.56/5.0
• Thesis:
  • Title: Optimizing Links, a functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript, for computer games
  • Grade: 5/5
  • https://djedr.github.io/bachelors_thesis.pdf
• Vice-leader of a team which won the Team Computer Game Development Competition, 6th edition. https://gry.it.p.lodz.pl/main/index.php/pl/okonkursie/poprzednie-edycje/edycja2014
  • Designed and implemented a game engine in C# and Microsoft XNA framework
  • Designed and implemented a game on top of that https://youtu.be/U5mKpAnPqNw
• Leader of a team which won silver in VR Challenge, 1st edition
  • Created a virtual reality game-simulation https://youtu.be/Qi2UEvtk9E8

Skills

Languages

• Native: Polish
• Fluent: English
• Basic: German, Spanish

Programming languages

• Significant experience: JavaScript/TypeScript (+ HTML, CSS), Scala
• Some experience: C, C++, C#, Java, PHP, SQL
• Basic experience: Ada, Bash, D, Haskell, Pascal, Python, x86 assembly, and more

Software

• Platforms: Azure, AWS, Web, Linux, Windows, embedded, Unity 3D, Unreal Engine 4
• Databases: PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, MS SQL
• Version control: Git, Subversion, Perforce
• Other: Docker, Atlassian suite, project management tools, office suites, graphics editing (raster and vector), and more