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David Krmpotić, B. Sc.
Last update: March 2012
Examples of projects completed for undergraduate degree in Computer Science
Computer Science related work experience
Memberships and affiliations
Conference speaker
People to learn from
Proficiency in languages
Letters of recommendation
Courses taken with grade average
EDUCATION:
I was born in 1981 in Slovenia. After finishing high school I started studying Computer Science at
I graduated in 2005 with work Extending open-source compilers with domain specific languages. I was investigating the possibilities of expanding a higher level
programming language compiler with an arbitrary domain specific language. I
successfully completed the task by expanding open source Mono C# Compiler with
Feature Description Language (FDL). The article resulting from this was accepted and presented at ITI 2005 international conference
A list of completed courses from my computer science undergraduate studies is attached.
In 2003 I spent one semester (five months) at Barcelona School of
Informatics at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
From 2008 until today I have been mostly coding and managing the project Odpiralni Časi for which I have been the founder. Odpiralni Časi is a local search engine for Slovenia (now also in Denmark) with focus on opening hours and also featuring mobile coupons. It employs a team of five and we have developed iPhone, Android and Win7 Phone client applications for our service. The reactions from the users are overwhelmingly positive and the project has in general been a great success for us.
My next business adventure is the project called 60words. We have started working on it in august 2011 and we expect to launch in a few months. 60words is a social network for language learners on the web and mobile with special spaced repetition training algorithm.
My other activities include various sports (running, CrossFit, cycling) and occasional high-altitude mountaineering.
| Languages | C++, Ruby, Pascal, Prolog, Lisp, C#, Java, ASM |
| Databases | MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, Access, SQLite, ADO.NET, Oracle, OR Mappers |
| Frameworks and Source Control | Visual Studio, Subversion, Git |
| Web | HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, Ruby on Rails, XML, Drupal, REST, Ajax |
| Automation | Capistrano, BASH scripting |
| Servers | Apache, Mongrel, NginX, IIS |
| Other | OpenGL, Latex, PIC and ATMEL microprocessor programming, Matlab, Mathematica, VMWare, Virtual PC, OpenVPN, Photostop, Windows XP Embedded, OS/X, Linux administration, Lex, YACC, Regular Expressions |
1996 - Won the national competition for best computer program with my advanced version of Tetris written in Pascal (that was in primary school).
2000 - In high school I received a 2nd award on national physics competition and 3rd in computer programming competition.
2004 - In college I was awarded a prize of Chancellor of
University of Maribor as the best student in generation in all technical faculties
EXAMPLES OF PRACTICAL PROJECTS COMPLETED FOR UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE:
- Implementation of huffman and adaptable huffman compression algorithm (C++)
- Compressing medical images with simple lossless image compression algorithm (C++)
- Implementation of DCT compression (C++)
- Model and procedures for calculating inverse transformations of 6 degrees-of-freedom industrial robot (for special Robot modeling environment developed at University of Maribor)
- Implementation of A* algorithm
which finds the shortest route between cities including the route visualisation on the map.
- Algorithm (Min/Max with Alpha-Beta prunning) for playing the game "Connect 4"
against other students' implementations and computer.
- Implementations of various simple algorithms in
Prolog (quicksort, A*, the water pitcher problem)
- "Windows explorer clone" with additional
features (like splitting and combining large files, automatic
refresh when file structure is changed) created in Visual Studio 6.0 (MFC,
C++).
- Simulation written in .NET which shows ant movements. Ants
are searching for food following pheromone trails other ants left,
demonstrating Swarm Computing approach.
- A modeler (MFC, OpenGL) for modeling B-Splines
and NURBS surfaces. Implementation of Phong and Gouraud shading, bitmap
texture mapping and procedural textures (noise) generation.
- Exact solution for small Traveling Salesman
Problems using dynamic programming (C++)
- Approximate solution for large TSPs using
evolutional algorithms. Added visual comparison between obtained solution
and exact solution from internet database. (C++)
- Stack-based calculator
- Application in Matlab for analyzing sound and
image signals. Including:
- displaying the spectrum of a signal
- implementation of Short-Time Fourier Transform and Fast Fourier Transform
- applying different filters to a picture using convolution
- recognizing objects in a picture - Simple java applet for simulation of a
Producer/Consumer algorithm
- Java applet for simulating defragmentation of
memory as processes are coming in and out
- Some LISP problems, top one being "LISP interpreter in LISP
- Solving the problem of towers of hanoi by a simulation of recursion (pretending that it doesn't exist in C++ and implementing it using stacks)
- Scanner, (recursive descent) parser and syntactical analyzer for a
simple domain specific language for robot movement specification (C++)
- Simple XML parser (C++)
- 3D model of a somewhat complicated object (Big Ben tower in London) in Mathematica
- Linker for custom object modules (purpose was demonstrating the process of linking) (C#)
- Some basic electronic circuits using programmable microprocessors
COMPUTER SCIENCE RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:
60words Aug 2011 - Present
60words is a social network for efficient vocabulary learning and training coming out in early 2012!
Odpiralni Časi, OpenHours.dk Sept 2008 - Present
Odpiralni Časi / OpenHours is a local search solution for Slovenia and Denmark. It allows finding open stores and facilities nearby - complete with photos, comments and additional accurate info. Our iPhone app could be seen here. I have founded the project.
People can search nearby or add photos, new locations and comments directly from mobile clients (we have an iPhone, Android and Win7 Phone client). Our users like it for the ease of use and relevancy.
We invested more than 150.000 € into the project and it is now listed among top sites in Slovenia.
Greco (www.greco.si) Aug 2006 - Jun 2008
I am currently employed at Greco. Greco is a Slovenian software company run by Mr. Tadej Gregorčič. It is still in the process of establishment, but we already had a couple of great successes.
I would single out developing a very intuitive VoIP Call Center for a demanding customer (mscadriatics.com). The application is called LiveProfiler and enables our customer to run direct marketing campaigns for large customers like Microsoft, Honda and Diners Club. LiveProfiler has already generated interest from other marketing companies. I was the main developer on the project.
Cosylab (www.cosylab.com) May 2005 to Sept 2005
Cosylab is a very respected Slovenian / global company with main focus in control systems for particle accelerators and geographic information systems.
While at Cosylab I developed a prototype application for showing terrain maps on handheld devices. Technology used: Microsoft Compact .NET framework. Duration: 4 months.
I joined Cosylab after finishing my studies and later decided to leave to pursue my own project. I feel lucky to have met a couple of very interesting and talented people - especially the founder Mr. Mark Pleško.
Open source
I feel very passionate about this and I especially like what is happening around Rails community and Mozilla projects.
Student and high-school work
Before graduating I worked on a few projects for electrical engineering companies:
- Application for storing information on projects. Its
main features are automatic Word documentation generation and option of updating
hours spent on projects across the network by employees. Used
technologies: C#, ADO.NET, SQL. Time spent: more than a year and in progress.
- Application for calculation of illumination and light
sources arrangement for rooms. Used technologies: C#. Time spent: two
months.
- Application for calculation of various electrical
components' parameters for buildings (wire type and diameter, fuses etc.).
Used technologies: C#. Time spent: one month.
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE:
In summer of 2004 I was working in Food & Beverage in
MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS:
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
CONFERENCE SPEAKER:
December 2007: Barcamp Zagreb: Ruby Metaprogramming basics and implementation of a simple DSL (Domain Specific Language)
Here are some people from CS field that I really respect (in no particular order):
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, Anders Hejlsberg, Dennis M. Ritchie, Rob Pike, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Brian Kernighan, Ken Thompson, Donald E. Knuth, Hal Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Guido van Rossum, Bill Joy, Steve McConnell, John Lam, Tim Berners-Lee, Scott Guthrie, Craig Silverstein, Gregor Hohpe, Joshua Bloch, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Donald Knuth, John McCarthy, Jim Gray, Alan Kay, Scott Hanselman, David Heinemeier Hansson, Jamis Buck, Brad Abrams, Ward Cunningham, Martin Fowler, Steve Gibson, Dave Thomas, David Cutler, Chris Sells, Jeffrey Richter, Joel Spolsky, Gerald M. Weinberg, Charles Petzold, Frederick P. Brooks, Shai Avidan, Ariel Shamir, Joe Hewitt, John Resig...
PROFICIENCY IN LANGUAGES:
I am quite fluent in Slovenian, Serbo/Croatian, English, Spanish and Portuguese. My German understanding skills are satisfactory, but I want to keep on getting better and also learn to speak.
REFERENCES:
Marjan Mernik, phD (professor); Phone: +386 2 220-74-55; E-mail: marjan.mernik@uni-mb.si
Tadej Gregorčič (entrepreneur, co-worker); Phone: +386 2 320-20-50; E-mail: tadej@grecohq.com
Dejan Križaj, phD (entrepreneur); E-mail: dejan.krizaj@gmail.com
Stanko Blatnik, phD (professor, entrepreneur); E-mail: stanko_blatnik@yahoo.com
- Marjan Mernik
(professor at University of Maribor, Slovenia and University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
written in 2004, before graduation
To Whom It May Concern
I hereby confirm that David Krmpotic is currently a student at University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Slovenia. He enrolled into our 5 year undergraduate programme on computer science in the year 2000/01. At this moment he finished all exams towards undergraduate degree. Moreover, he finished with practical work on diploma thesis under my supervision. He was exploring the possibilities of developing domain-specific languages in a multi-language execution environment CLR (Common Language Runtime). Therefore, the only step that he needs to successfully finish undergraduate study is diploma thesis presentation. This will be done when he returns back to
David Krmpotic is one of our best students we had in our programme. His grade average is 9.67 (we are using the following grading scale: 6 - sufficient knowledge, 7 - satisfactory knowledge, 8 - good knowledge, 9 - very good knowledge and 10 - excellent knowledge). His abilities to learn are excellent while on the other hand is a hard worker, too. He finished all exams for second and third scholar year in one year (2001/02). David's personal characteristics are excellent, too. His attitude and commitment to serve in society are admirable.
Marjan Mernik, Ph.D., Associate Professor
University of Maribor
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
marjan.mernik@uni-mb.si - Akebo Yamakami (professor at State University of Campinas
- UNICAMP, São Paulo, Brazil)
To Whom It May Concern
I hereby confirm that David Krmpotic has taken part in the exchange of students arranged by the International Association for the Exhange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) under my supervision, from july/01/2003 to september/20/2003, at "Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação" of State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brasil. Moreover I confirm that David has finished successfully all the job we scheduled, and showed a very good application to work and great ability to learn new material.
Akebo Yamakami, Ph.D.
DT-FEEC-UNICAMP
akebo@dt.fee.unicamp.br - Jesse Augustine (food & beverage manager -
To Whom It May Concern
I have had the pleasure of working as David Krmpotic's manager at a park resort this summer of 2004. As our company does not permit me to write a formal letter of reference it is my pleasure to write a personal recommendation. David has always been willing to pick up extra shifts which has made my job much easier. In addition to that he has always worked hard and has brought solutions to the problems in the workplace. As a testimony to his hard work I would mention that he has been promoted from a cafeteria line serving position to a dinning room bussing position. His attendance and punctuality record has been exemplary, and I would recommend him for any position. For more information please contact me personally at (307) 242-9975.
Respectfully,
Jesse Augustine
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAKEN WITH GPA
Scale:
10 - excellent knowledge
9 - very good knowledge
7 - satisfactory knowledge
6 - sufficient knowledge
