Miro Kropacek
Senior Software Engineer at Wabtec Corporation
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolMiro Kropacek is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience and deep C/C++ expertise, currently working on embedded and high-performance systems at Wabtec in Queensland, Australia. He has a proven track record across firmware, audio streaming, mobile apps and simulation engines, having shipped products from bat detectors and recloser controllers to VBS whole-earth renderers. A pragmatic polyglot comfortable from assembler to C#, Miro blends low-level optimisation (DMA playback, accelerated blitting, aspect-ratio fixes for the Atari backend in ScummVM) with system-level design and team leadership. He co-founded startups and led engineering teams, mentoring hires, conducting code reviews and representing companies in public talks. Known for solving hard-to-debug field problems and migrating tooling and processes (SVN→Git, Docker/k8s for next-gen products), he brings both hardware-aware rigor and product-minded pragmatism.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Geodesy and Cartography, Geodesy and Cartography at High School of GeodeticsChartered Engineer Computer Systems and Networks, Chartered Engineer Computer Systems and Networks at Slovak University of Technology
English, German, Russian, Slovak, Czech, Polish
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Github Skills (15)
c-language10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
game-engine10
graphics-programming10
game-dev10
cross-platform8
multiplatform8
type-safety6
android6
visual-studio6
compiler-construction6
adb6
enum-class6
enums6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
scummvm/scummvm
Mar 2019 - Jan 2025
ScummVM main repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:86 reviews, 21 PRs, 53 pushes in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Miro primarily contributed to the Atari platform back-end within the ScummVM project, with a focus on graphics and audio. Their work included refactoring and optimizing low-level graphics routines, introducing accelerated blitting, implementing aspect ratio correction, and integrating DMA playback. The contributions also encompassed fixes for issues related to key repeat and buffer overflows, showcasing a dedication to improving the overall performance and stability of the Atari platform support.
scummvmadventure-gamesrpg-enginebadukdm
mikrosk/quake
Feb 2011 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 17 commits, 1 push in 6 years 9 months
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