Jan Capek
Co-Founder at Braiins
Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Capek is a seasoned embedded systems engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building real-time microkernels, BSPs, and firmware for constrained hardware. As Co-Founder and long-time technical leader at Braiins, he has scaled Slush Pool infrastructure, led DDoS mitigation and security efforts, and driven infrastructure automation. His deep expertise spans Embedded Linux, PikeOS real-time OS development, FreeRTOS/NuttX applications, and custom toolchain work, grounded in strong object-oriented design. Prior roles include heading PikeOS development and creating BSPs and PIC toolchains, giving him rare end-to-end insight from silicon to production services. Based in Czechia, he pairs hands-on low-level engineering with strategic architecture for high-availability systems. An occasional freelancer-style tinkerer, he combines product-focused leadership with practical embedded craftsmanship.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Czech Technical University in PragueSoftware Engineering, System Security, Software Engineering, System Security at Technische Universität BerlinMilwaukee School of Engineering
Github Skills (110)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
braiins/cgminer
Nov 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
braiins/braiins
Sep 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 9 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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