Hello, my name is Oliver Raškov and I‘m your host on this blog. By education I'm B.Sc. with Hon. in Information Engineering. I hope that you find here provided information as useful in your hobby or work. At the beginning I want to point out that I'm not the smartest man on this planet. And yes I do make mistakes, so please feel free to contact me if you have some constructive advice or you notice some errors.
During my career I worked and solved problems in really a lot of different technologies. Yet I find my self as an expert only in few. Even today I'm not afraid to learn new things, the only thing bothering me are people not being able to recognize passion and will to improve.
My skills and interest in computer science started to develop way back in my elementary school. I always had a support from my father who was an accountant and had recognized the importance of introducing computers to offices.
Watching my father work with huge data loads, upgrading from Lotus 123 to Quattro Pro and finally MS Excel, I saw the importance of data (information) - collection and transformation. Also I realized how process automation can make a difference.
The beginning of my career I spent working as a System Administrator / System Engineer. And as I was never afraid to learn it took me a little time to sail into Linux and Unix world. But of course to work with Microsoft Server technologies too.
As I love to push the boundaries I had to go back to software development. I worked on every kind of project, from small private projects to large professional ones. Been included in software development from the stage of an idea to deployment on customer site.
At this moment I work as an SQL Team Leader in Big Data company, leading agile team of 8 people. Technologies I use to complete my tasks are MySQL, Python and Bash. The fun part is writing python applications which are creating reports in different formats of presenting. My luck is to create reports for names like Audi, McLaren, Skoda, Lamborghini and many more.
From the year 2000. to 2012. I actively worked in local community center. In these years I earned certifications as tester for MS Windows and MS Office, but also expert level certifications from Excel and Power Point. Trying at least to give a little back to the community I came from, during those years, I worked as teacher on various volunteer courses:
- computer literacy courses like ECDL.
- basic programming courses in C/C++, C#, VB and Delphi Pascal
- web starter courses (HTML and CSS)
One of my favorite quotes is: “I know one thing: that I know nothing.” - Socrates, and I try to live in accordance with it.