Daniel Vrátil
@dvratil

Hi, I'm Daniel from Prague, Czech republic. I love everything about computers, programming and open source. While I have been writing code since I was around 15 years old, I like to say that I've become a programmer only once I started contributing to open source, because that's when many amazing people dedicated their precious free time to review my code, give me hints about how to improve my programming skills and mentor me. This is where my love for free software and open source was born.

I've been doing open source ever since then. I've been contributing to KDE, one of the biggest open source projects, for over a decade, making lots of friends along the way and constantly learning from the best and brightest minds in the industry. I've mostly stopped contributing to KDE in the recent years as my day job and my family take up most of my time these days.

I'll never stop doing open source, though. Even though I no longer contribute code to KDE, I have other side projects that I work on - both for my own benefit (to learn) and for benefit of everyone else who find my work useful. Most recently I've been working on QCoro, a library to ease using C++20 coroutines with Qt.

Professionally I've been working in Red Hat, co-maintaining KDE in RHEL and Fedora, KDAB, a Qt, C++ and OpenGL consultancy company and these days I'm working on network security products in Avast. I've been also teaching HTML, CSS and Python introductory courses for Czechitas.

I would love to be able to dedicate more time to my open source work again, getting back to contributing KDE, spending more time on other projects like QCoro and maybe contributing to other projects as well. At the same time, I still need to support my family. If you find my work useful, and you would like to say "Thank you", please consider donating a little money to allow me to do even more.