Petr Koupý

About Me

Personal History: I was born in 1987 in Brno, Czech Republic. A spent my childhood in a nearby city Blansko, where I also completed my primary and secondary education. After I studied 5 years at the elementary school Dvorská, I transferred to the 8-year studies at the grammar school Gymnázium Blansko.

There I became more and more attracted to natural sciences, especially mathematics and physics. I was so interested in these fields that I also tried to compete with other students at yearly cont ests. Although I wasn't particularly successful, the preparation for these contests greatly broadened my scope above the basic curriculum. As a leisure time activity, I was interested in computers - mainly hardware manipulation, system configuration, administration and some very basic programming.

When the end of secondary school was getting closer, I competed quite successfully at the science competition with my work on cryptology. This experience was actually my first contact with what is generally understood as computer science and quite honestly, I was very amazed by this science discipline. During this time, I also went twice to the scientific summer camp organized by Charles University in Prague. All the mentioned above heavily influenced my choice of university education.

Without much hesitation, I enrolled to the computer science bachelor program at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague. During the preparation of my bachelor thesis, I was given a chance to participate on writing a scientific article and also in giving a short talk at the scientific conference, which was very interesting experience.

After securing the bachelor degree, I enrolled to the follow-up master studies focused predominantly on system programming and it is still keeping me busy up to this day. Most recently, I was also briefly employed by Google as part of their summer stipend program.
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Proffesional Interests: operating systems, distributed systems, parallel programming, multiplatform development, portability, compilers, networking, data compression, data mining, neural networks, information security
Non-proffesional Interests: modern technologies, physics, economy, investing
Leisure Time Activities: science fiction, anime, computer games, jazz and electronic music, snowboarding, cycling, fitness
Psychological Profile: According to the Myers-Briggs psychological type indicator at MyPersonality.info, I match INTJ type (czech characteristics, english characteristics).
Political Viewpoint: I tend to be conservative, as can be seen on the result of The Political Compass test.
Other Interesting Facts: I am a member of Mensa Czech Republic since 2006.
I played a transverse flute for 8 years (both solo and in orchestra).
I like exotic cuisine, especially Italian and Japanese.
I am a passionate drinker of Chinese dark pu-erh tea.