Jakub Kulík
Principal Software Engineer at Oracle
Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJakub Kulík is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of systems and platform experience, currently leading Solaris-focused engineering at Oracle. He progressed through hands-on roles from Software Engineer to Principal since 2018, combining deep system programming knowledge from FIT ČVUT with practical IT and teaching experience earlier in his career. Jakub contributes to CPython, where he has fixed platform-specific bugs, improved performance and build processes, and added Solaris support such as posix_spawn and subprocess fixes—work that impacts the widely used Python language. Known for bridging devops and back-end development, he brings a pragmatic approach to cross-platform compatibility and low-level debugging.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Inženýr (Ing.), Systemové programování, 2016, Inženýr (Ing.), Systemové programování, 2016 at FIT ČVUT v Praze
Github Skills (11)
debug10
solaris10
sys10
python10
subprocess10
operating-system10
performance-optimization8
multiprocessing7
python-multiprocessing7
multi-process7
build-system7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
python/cpython
Jul 2019 - May 2021
The Python programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:46 reviews, 3 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily contributed to the Python codebase, focusing on bug fixes, platform compatibility, and performance improvements within the cpython repository. They addressed issues specific to the Solaris operating system, rectifying incorrect code and fixing problems related to shared memory tests and unicode encoding. Furthermore, they implemented enhancements to the build process, added support for posix_spawn and fixed errors in subprocess and other modules.
python-programmingprogramming-languagepythonpython-programming-language
kulikjak/photosifter
Mar 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:56 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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