Honza Javorek

Highlights

After 5+ years of developing API design tools in Apiary, a successful startup acquired by Oracle, I founded my own project, junior.guru. It helps people to start learning how to code and to get their first job in tech. I'm also writing What is an API?, learning materials for people starting with APIs.

Since 2011 I have been helping to drive the growth and success of the Czech Python User Group. For years I have been participating in volunteer-driven meetups, courses, workshops, conferences, nonprofit, and more.

For almost five years I have been leading the development and maintenance of Dredd, an open source tool for testing HTTP APIs. The number of GitHub stars went up 5 times since when I took over the project.

In 2016 I wrote an article about two personalities of developers, which went viral in the Czech Republic. It got republished, followed-up, mentioned in mainstream media, and I get invited to speak about the topic.

Appearances

• Lessons learned from 9 years of community work

  Oct 2019 — Python User Group (Brno, CZE) —  slides

• Using Cucumber as a language-agnostic spec

  Oct 2019 — Hive Talks (Prague, CZE) —  slides

• What is an API?

  May 2019 — PyWorking (Prague, CZE) —  text

• Docs in Sphinx

  Nov 2018 — Python User Group (Brno, CZE)

• Docs in Sphinx

  Nov 2018 — Python User Group (Prague, CZE)

• What is an API?

  Nov 2018 — PyWorking (Prague, CZE) —  text

• Two personalities of developers

  Oct 2018 — Python User Group (Brno, CZE) —  slides

• Two personalities of developers

  Oct 2018 — Night of Chances (Brno, CZE) —  slides

• Why not sh and what to use instead

  Sep 2018 — Python User Group (Prague, CZE) —  text

• String formatting

  Jun 2018 — Python User Group (Prague, CZE) —  slides

• Python and Open Data

  Mar 2018 — Python User Group (Prague, CZE)

• Test your API docs!

  Feb 2018 — Write The Docs (Amsterdam, NLD) —  slides

• Test your API docs!

  Feb 2018 — FOSDEM (Brussels, BEL) —  slides

• Static blog in Pelican on GitHub Pages

  May 2017 — Python User Group (Prague, CZE)

• How corporations can attract good engineers

  May 2017 — HR professional community (Prague, CZE) —  text

• Design APIs for humans and test what you promised

  May 2017 — Hive Talks (Prague, CZE) —  slides

• Describe, test, develop

  May 2017 — Practical aspects of software design, Brno University of Technology (Brno, CZE) —  slides

• Unsolicited life advices

  May 2017 — Practical aspects of software design, Brno University of Technology (Brno, CZE) —  slides

• Because web API testing should be easy

  Mar 2017 — PyCon SK (Bratislava, SVK) —  slides

• API

  Feb 2017 — Python User Group (Ostrava, CZE)

• Honza Javorek not only about Python

  Oct 2016 — CZ Podcast (Prague, CZE)

• How to learn programming (in Python)

  Oct 2016 — Python User Group (Ostrava, CZE) —  slides

• Dredd

  Jun 2016 — Symfony User Group (Prague, CZE) —  slides

• Dredd

  May 2016 — Python User Group (Prague, CZE) —  slides

• pip install

  Apr 2016 — PyLadies (Prague, CZE) —  slides

• Judge Dredd brings justice to your API!

  Mar 2016 — Devel.cz (Prague, CZE) —  slides

• How to learn programming (in Python)

  Jan 2016 — Python User Group (Brno, CZE) —  slides

• Designing APIs - Mastering HTTP is just beginning

  Sep 2015 — WebExpo (Prague, CZE) —  slides

• API design life cycle + Dredd

  Jun 2015 — Rubyslava Conf'15 (Bratislava, SVK) —  slides

• PyCon CZ

  Jun 2015 — Python User Group (Prague, CZE)

• Keynote: the past and the future of the Python User Group

  Apr 2015 — Python User Group (Brno, CZE)

• PATCH

  Apr 2015 — Python User Group (Prague, CZE) —  slides

• Pandoc & new python.cz

  Feb 2015 — Python User Group + Czechitas (Brno, CZE)

• API design life cycle

  Oct 2014 — Nordic APIs Platform Summit (Stockholm, SWE) —  slides

• requirements.txt and Heroku

  Oct 2014 — Python User Group (Ostrava, CZE)

• How the Python User Group started in Brno

  Aug 2014 — Python User Group (Brno, CZE) —  text

• Gevent

  Jun 2014 — Python User Group (Ostrava, CZE)

• Projects

  May 2014 — Python User Group (Brno, CZE)

• REST API MANUAL

  Nov 2013 — Python User Group (Prague, CZE) —  slides

• Sublime Text 2

  Mar 2013 — Python User Group (Prague, CZE)

• How to survive a queue

  May 2012 — Python User Group (Brno, CZE) —  slides

• How to get the maximum out of CSS

  Apr 2011 — Webdesign seminar, Masaryk University (Brno, CZE) —  slides

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Articles

• How I deploy

  Jan 2020 — blog

• Courting Haskell

  Jan 2020 — blog

• Reviving my blog

  Dec 2019 — blog

• Senior Engineer

  Jul 2018 — blog (dev.to, medium.com)

• Pracuj s námi (cs)

  Mar 2018 — blog

• Jak (ne)volit z USA (cs)

  Jan 2018 — blog

• Code review (cs)

  Nov 2017 — blog (zdrojak.cz)

• Python komunita a já (cs)

  Sep 2017 — blog

• Konference nejsou o přednáškách (cs)

  May 2017 — blog

• How corporations can attract good engineers

  May 2017 — blog

view more on my blog, dev.to, zdrojak.cz, and medium.com

Projects

• honzajavorek/junior.guru

  Learn to code and get your first job in tech

• honzajavorek/cojeapi

  What is an API?

• pyvec/docs.pyvec.org

  Czech Python user group docs

• pyvec/python.cz

  Czech Python user group homepage

• apiaryio/dredd

  Language-agnostic HTTP API Testing Tool

• honzajavorek/cartoonist

  Convert a photo of a hand drawing into SVG/PDF

view more on my GitHub