Profile

I come from a beautiful city – Gdansk where I finished my Bachelor in Automatic Control and Robotics.

Currently I live in Crawley West Sussex where I work as a Control/Software Engineer. I have lived here for about 2 years and I love this place for many reasons!

I lived as well  in Sweden where I enjoyed international student life (and I did my master program in Electrical Engineering at the same time – result you can see here: https://youtu.be/HuZLEZgoXKo?list=FLVv87K6cvTmHpDcJxSCVjmg). Moreover I can speak decent Swedish thanks to that and I never use it – not even in Sweden too much as they speak perfect English usually (make better choices if you want to learn a new language. Pick something more popular  ! 😀 )

My biggest hobby at the moment is traveling, adventuring and hiking. I love to go wild camping and do spontaneous expeditions to unknown places. ( I spent a month backpacking in Australia this December/January, you are welcome to check it out https://youtu.be/8z9N_lN49-k ).

When I’m stuck at home I usually  play a guitar, watch movies/youtube or even read some books.

I work as a Control System Engineer for Oil and Gas industry. In general I design control and safety systems for offshore platforms or onshore gas plants and refineries. It involves activities like programming (control software), electrical design, process visualization development, going to the costumer site all around UK and further for system commissioning and testing.

In simpler words, I make the things moving 😉

In my company we usually do a big projects that take about a year to deliver. Therefore my daily activities depend on what stage of the project is.  And sometimes I am not even in the office ! For example last year I spent around 3 moths on  Gas Terminal in Bacton to test and commission a control system for a whole plant ! That is why my job is not boring, it doesn’t have a typical day 🙂

However I would probably be doing some of the following during the day: designing control system and then programming PLC controllers, developing scripts in VBA, writing technical documentation, contacting client,  building visualization,  testing control system, wiring up and playing with a test rig, having team project meetings, going to the client sites to do commissioning.

I would like to buy LEGO mind-storms sets to organize robotic workshops for kids.

When I was a student I used to be a “Robotic Teacher”, where I was using LEGO mind-storms to organize workshops where kids were competing in robot fight, races, line followers and many more.

I think it is a good way to engage kids and show some basics of how computer/controller works, how to program the robot, how to think about algorithms, how the sensor works. Moreover I know that in many cases it ignites a real passion for creating!

I would have a lot of fun doing it again here.