Profile
Hi! My name is Paweł Kurek. I’m about to finish my engineering studies at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice (Computer Science in Electronic Systems and Circuits), and I’m getting more and more into the world of electronics and embedded systems.
Since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated by electronics and building simple robots, but it wasn’t until university that I discovered what this field is really about. In fact, I consider myself mostly self-taught — during my studies I only learned the basics, and the rest I’ve been exploring on my own. I’m constantly trying to improve, because I’d like to tie my future to electronics and embedded systems.
What I enjoy most is hardware design – from schematics, through PCB layout, all the way to bringing circuits to life. On top of that, I also like the software side of things, especially programming in C, C++ and MicroPython, so in my projects I combine both worlds. I’ve built a few of my own designs (you can read about them in the next section), and I also gained my first commercial experience. During my internship, I completed two projects that taught me a lot — unfortunately, I can’t share the details here. Still, they gave me valuable insight into what it’s like to work on professional hardware, how important teamwork is, and that sometimes the most important thing is not the perfect solution, but the one that runs reliably.
I want to keep developing as a hardware engineer – creating systems that don’t just work on paper, but also perform in the real world.
I’m also excited to share that since September I’ve been officially working as an electronics technician — and partly as a programmer too. This is where I’m starting my journey into PCB design, which is giving me tons of satisfaction and countless learning opportunities. Unfortunately, I still can’t show the projects from work here, but… you can definitely expect more of my own designs in the near future, because nowhere am I learning electronics as well as I am in my new workplace.
And if anyone has good advice or interesting challenges for me… I’m always open 🙂 Enjoy browsing my portfolio!