About

My name is Radosław Skupnik, I live in Dębica, Poland, and I’m a self-taught software engineer and a computer enthusiast.

When I started, I had fun with Turbo Pascal. I was 12 back then, so my greatest achievement was a RAT application that I used to prank my friend three houses down the road over LAN (yeah, houses on the street were joined in a single LAN back then). Ahh, those were the times…

My main programming language is Java and the reason for that is pure coincidence. Back in ~2005, those pieces of software known as server emulators were popular. You know, when there’s a great MMORPG game out there, but you’re just a kid and have no cash to play that game, but you really, really want to, because massive multiplayer man, it was mind-bending back then! So people came up with server emulators - they basically spoofed the packet traffic between the actual game client and the actual game server and used that to recreate the server (emulate it) and use the actual client to connect to a fake server - and there you have it, a private server. Massively bugged and missing key features, but at least in an achievable price range.

Those were probably somewhat illegal back then? I’m not sure, but as a kid, I had no idea anyway, so I played on a Polish private server of a game called Lineage II - the server was called Allseron. Didn’t take long before I took interest in how the server works over the game itself, at which point I started helping with maitaining it - and learning Java along the way.

Nowadays I work as a DevOps Engineer and I spend my working hours setting up Kubernetes clusters, automating stuff with Terraform and studying the Clouds.

From less important information, I love cats, nature, walks in the forest and gaming - mainly Path of Exile :)