Hi there! My name’s Dominik Stańczak-Marikin and I’m currently a Python software developer.
I previously worked at a large pharma company with data processing pipelines for neurodegenerative disease research, at the Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion in Warsaw, Poland as a research software engineer, where I helped analyse data from Wendelstein 7-X, the currently (2023) largest stellarator in the world, and at Samsung R&D Poland, helping with natural language translation. I consider myself a recovering physicist.
In my spare time, I usually:
- help out with open source software projects such as PlasmaPy or Beyond All Reason
- tinker, script and automate
- worry a lot (but I’m getting better about it!)
- crack jokes and smith puns
- read books and learn lots
- write simulations to better understand physical systems and stare at pretty data viz
- play games - classic RTSes made me who I am now. StarCraft II was a huge part of my life, but nowadays I mostly play Factorio with my wife.
- take care of our doggo, Igornacy
- hike or bike in forests or mountains
- write on this here blog to help people out and scratch the teaching itch. In fact, if you’ve found this blog at all useful or enjoyable, there’s no better way to express that (and make my day, too!) than to tell me about it!