I've consistently combined hands-on technical work with leadership to drive meaningful change. Although my formal leadership roles span the past eight years, I've been influencing teams and improving products far longer—because true product evolution demands more than passive participation; it requires initiative, ownership, and vision. My background in development, DevOps, testing, and quality has allowed me to deliver strategic and tactical improvements while keeping my hands on the work. I manage Linux servers and adjust code when needed, staying closely connected to current technologies and practices. This blend of experience and engagement has helped me lead happier, more efficient teams and deliver results that matter.
Summary: Over the past 25 years, I've traversed through every stage of the software development lifecycle. Eventually, I gravitated towards QA, where I could leverage various perspectives. While nudged towards people leadership, I really like to grow people.
Over the past 25 years, I've traversed through every stage of the software development lifecycle. Eventually, I gravitated towards QA, where I could leverage various perspectives. While nudged towards people management, I discovered my true vocation.
Over the past 25 years, I've traversed through every stage of the software development lifecycle. Eventually, I gravitated towards QA, where I could leverage various perspectives. While nudged towards people management, I discovered my true vocation.
What did you use instead? The article mentions a mouse, but was that clicking an on screen keyboard, or was it another instead, a more radical change?
Your article spurred me to think of voice command for desktop, but unlike mobile I don't really know where to start with that (Linux, Debian specifically, but particular distro isn't super important if part of a larger change). What was your path?
Over the years, I’ve promised to describe my digital photography backup strategy to you multiple times. I wrote this article a few times in the past but have yet to publish it, as I’ve ironically lost it numerous times. But I always kept my photographs.
It has already been twenty-five years since we could go to Sosaria together. It was pretty new to play with other people in a graphical game. Ultima Online wasn’t the first online MMORPG (although now it’s assumed the term came with this game). But I do believe it was the best one. Why do I think so? I will get to it.
Ultimate Online was a weird thing for me. I never played it, or EverQuest. I never had a good rig. Back then I had this dilapidated compaq presario with windows 93 that I would play shareware cdrom games on- we lived in a swamp in rural Michigan. Internet was only a thing if you were lucky. I would get pc gamer from the local grocery store and I would fantasize about playing these games on the internet. Print was my only portal to the world of the internet. Eventually I made friends with people who had it though.
I don’t even like video games anymore but back then it seemed like a whole new world. Now it seems like the butt end of a joke. However, I am no longer a teenager.
You might have heard that you should not do any IT maintenance while drunk, but what they never tell you is – do not try to fix your computer while having a fever!
Remote: CET timezone preferred
Willing to relocate: depends
Technolologies: QA, Leadership, DevOps
Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karelochman/
Email: karel@ochman.info
I've consistently combined hands-on technical work with leadership to drive meaningful change. Although my formal leadership roles span the past eight years, I've been influencing teams and improving products far longer—because true product evolution demands more than passive participation; it requires initiative, ownership, and vision. My background in development, DevOps, testing, and quality has allowed me to deliver strategic and tactical improvements while keeping my hands on the work. I manage Linux servers and adjust code when needed, staying closely connected to current technologies and practices. This blend of experience and engagement has helped me lead happier, more efficient teams and deliver results that matter.