About Me

My name is Petr Ospalý and my handle (usually) is ospalax. I am Czech national born in Brno, Czech Republic.

I wrote my first lines of code in the last year of elementary school when we were introduced to Turbo Pascal.

At that point I was hooked to computers and I selected a high school with the programming curriculum as a mandatory class.

The following is my school project of choice - Sudoku generator and solver written in Pascal:

You can check out the lame czenglish code of mine from that period here:

• https://github.com/ospalax/gympl

Later we got introduced into programming in language C, shell scripting and Linux at Brno University and I became Linux user ever since.

My first distribution was an Ubuntu and (I believe) Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) release.

Breaking and fixing my Linux Desktop was a great way to ramp up some practical skills and it definitively helped me to land first job.

My professional career started around year 2011 as a Junior Linux Sysadmin.