Pavel Krulec

Standing on my own

Now I can participate in various interesting projects.

SuPr Běh

SuPr Běh (Sušický Překážkový Běh) is a sport event similar to Spartan race. Challenged by my brother, I practised a lot and took part in this competition.

Although it was much easier than the Spartan race, I scored 7th place out of 25 men in my category, which I consider great success.

Anet A6L 3D printer with Marlin firmware

This one is quite a notable achievement. During the Covid-19 times I've bought a 3D printer

There were many difficulties from the beginning, starting with shipping from the stock, but finally, the printer arrived.

Anet A6 is one of the cheapest printers available. Very soon I've realized I'll pay for it with my time.

I've spent many hours changing the firmware to Marlin. I had almost no experience with this kind of low-level programming, except for the Bremen's hackathon. However, I can't resist this kind of challenge.

After many hours, I learned I need to burn a bootloader into the printer, which wasn't that trivial using my Raspberry Pi (which I won in the McKinsey coding competition). Then I could finally flash the Marlin firmware with almost no guides available on the internet.

Therefore I've summed my process up into a guide and made it publicly available. Hopefully, it will help someone.

McKinsey coding competition winner

By the end of 2019 we took part in McKinsey coding competition.

This competition was quite different from the usual hackathons we've taken part in yet. The difference was mainly in a given and particular topic. We had just a few hours to complete as many user stories as possible.

The final product was a web mobile-first application for tracking local sports opportunities.

I'm sure we've done an excellent job with our app Benefits, and the judges agreed. We have won the first prize, which was awesome.

HackPrague 2019 Finalists

Since we really love HackPrague, we've taken part in this hackathon for the third time!

This year's topic was Smart Cities. We came up with an idea that Smart City does not necessarily mean big cities like Prague. Less populated towns also have their issues which can be solved in a smart way.

We've created SMAPRT - a web application based on self-organizing maps algorithm and open data. The objective of SMAPRT is to provide mayors with a solution to find municipalities with similar properties in order to cooperate on a solution to common issues.

Best IoT Hack at JacobsHack 2018

Czech hackathons we've taken part in so far were great. However, we decided to try something different. We were accepted to JacobsHack in Bremen, Germany.

Following the spirit of trying something new, we grabbed some hardware devices and developed a solution to prevent fraudulent ticket reselling using on-demand lifespan-limited QR code generation.

For this solution we were awarded the Best IoT Hack using Qualcomm device prize.

Talk at ReactiveConf 2018

After winning HackPrague 2018 we got an opportunity to promote ourselves at ReactiveConf 2018 final stage. We had a short talk about Curriculum Catenae and its demo implementation.

Software development and support

I develop and support Android applications written mainly in Kotlin (because Kotlin is love). With Whadoo we will conquer not only the West End.

By the way, Whadoo is a company we established after winning HackPrague 2017.

Master's degree

I successfully graduated with my master's studies as a software engineer.

Software development and support in Česká spořitelna

After circa four years of full-stack development and support of web applications for Česká spořitelna, I became a member of the OpenShift Tools team, where I'm in charge of tools for CI/CD pipeline. All of that as an externe, an employee of the 1.PF company.

1^st place at HackPrague 2018

After our big success the previous year, we attended HackPrague again. We were not aiming for the first place, and our main goal was the enjoy the fantastic event. However, our BlockChain Curriculum Vitae made a perfect impression on the jury.

Although the grand price was won by a team in AI category, we were awarded the BlockChain category price.

Bachelor's degree

After three hard years, I graduated my bachelor studies with honours. My bachelor project topic was Project management information system with focus on software support phase.

Lessons learned? Team is the answer!

1^st place at HackTixx 2017

Our solution with BlockChain used for solving several Ticketing issues met success at a great London Theatre Direct's hackathon in Paralelni Polis.

1^st place at HackPrague 2017

Together with my awesome teammates we were awarded the Best Travel Hack prize and announced as the overall winners of one of the best hackathons - HackPrague.

LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Exercise book

The summer holiday of 2015 was dedicated to writing an exercise book for LEGO Mindstorms EV3 for teachers and students. I've included ideas for tasks of different difficulty, robot building instructions and solutions written in both, LEGO's graphical language and Java for comparison. Guess what, people use it!

Maturita / Graduation

After eight years I graduated with honours. Some of the learnt knowledge I still use (like how to be a grammar nazi), the rest I've already forgotten.

The most important experience I've learnt is: I hate learning things by heart; it's the wrong way. The right way to learn new things is by regular practising!

After school programming activities

I was still a high school student who wanted to taste the other side - I was teaching children 12 to 15 years old programming basics in GameMaker. Oh, GameMaker, that's where I started...

TOP 4 with E-bicycle (before it was cool)

We took part in the Technical Olympiad of the Pilsen Region. We've taken an old bicycle, replaced most of the metal frame with carbon pipes, added a little, though powerful, electric engine and voilà - electric bicycle has been born.

Later on, we've presented our bicycle on StreTech 2014 as well.

1^st place at Chain Reaction

Chemical experiments - who wouldn't love them? We've created a fantastic chemical-physical-electronic chain reaction. With our video we've won both - the jury and audience prize.

Preparations took us lot's of afternoons, but it was worth it! We were invited to Czech National Technical Museum to show our experiment to the jury in reality. Guess what happened! Fire + smoke + National Technical Museum = Fire alarm and fireproof blinds. What a great experience!