2020-08-06-radovan-bast.md

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title	Opening Eyes and Turning Lights On
author	@pweschmidt
rse	Radovan Bast
phenotype	bast-rse-phenotype.png
excerpt	Meet Radovan from Tromsø in Northern Norway, who is building exciting software and teaching students how to be good engineers. He is also busy building and growing the Nordic RSE community with colleagues from Sweden, Finland and other countries.
date	2020-08-06 01:30:00 -0700
external_media	https://us-rse.org/rse-stories-episodes-1/2020/rse-stories-radovan-bast-episode-28.mp3
length	18111970
duration	00:37:43
explicit	no
resources	name url Radovan Bast Twitter https://twitter.com/__radovan name url Radovan Bast Homepage https://bast.fr name url Cicero serving slides https://github.com/bast/cicero name url Threat Defuser https://threat-defuser.org name url Nordic RSEs https://nordic-rse.org/conference/ name url CMake Cookbook https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook

Today we meet with Radovan Bast (@__radovan, Homepage) from Tromsø in Northern Norway. Radovan moved into software engineering via theoretical chemistry. The journey wasn't easy, or as Radovan put it "I had imposter syndrome." However, one of the highlights in this transition has been teaching others software and watch "eyes opening and lights turning on." In our session we talk about some of Radovan's exciting projects like Cicero - shared presentations or filtering and finding misinformation. He is also co-author of the CMake Cookbook.

Radovan is closely working with colleagues in Norway, Sweden, Finland and other countries to build and grow a Nordic RSE organisation, kicking off with a conference planned for December 2020 in Stockholm (Covid-19 permitting).