About

Hi!

My chosen name is Rai, and my given name is Michal Pokorný. I’m 26, grew up in Czech Republic and I’ve worked as a software engineer at Google Zurich since March 2016.

I have a bachelor’s in general CS from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague. I started a master’s in AI at the very same, and passed all parts but the “you have to write a thesis” one.

You can find me on Telegram as agentydragon. My personal e-mail is agentydragon@gmail.com.

I am on GitHub as agentydragon.

I am an effective altruist (Czech) and I currently aim to give ~10%.

I also have a LinkedIn account and a Facebook account. I only use LinkedIn for people I worked with and I only use Facebook for people I know in person.

I hunted a few geocaches:

I try to be a generalist. Some stuff I do or did before:

• Lots of Google stack in C++, Python. Services, gigabyte-terabyte scale pipelines, stuff like that.
• Web stuff. In the distant past, I used PHP, then Ruby (on Rails and off), and I mostly use Python today. Of course, there’s JavaScript and its offshoots.
• I sometimes write software that needs a lot of performance. I mostly use C or C++ for that, but I also like Go.
• I also wrote a few desktop things in Java and C#. I’m a bit more competent in the latter.

Between 2012 and 2016, I helped organize KSP – a computer science seminar for high school students by Charles University.