Experiences
Internships, trips, and encounters that shaped what I want to do.
Internship at ČVC Electronic
In 2026, I completed an internship at ČVC Electronic, a Czech company that creates satellites launched by SpaceX. I worked on the software side of a cable-testing system built around a Raspberry Pi. My main task was developing a Python client that communicates with a measurement server over the local network using gRPC.
The client calls a remote procedure to measure the state of individual pins while simultaneously monitoring the server through a streaming RPC, so it can immediately detect when the measuring hardware is disconnected. The server side was developed by a colleague, which meant we had to agree on a shared protobuf definition and test the whole system end to end.
Besides gRPC, I also gained hands-on experience with MQTT, Zigbee, and LoRa communication, Docker, and working on a remote Linux machine over SSH. I also learned how to use KiCad to design, laser-print, and solder custom electronic circuits.
At the very end, we got to see a different branch of the company: the one building drones. I have been interested in drone technology for a while, and this might have been the most interesting part of my internship.
Most of all, the internship taught me how to split a project between multiple people and make them work together.
What they wrote about me
After the internship, ČVC Electronic wrote a few words about it on their LinkedIn page:
We were proud to give a young, ambitious mind a place to learn, break things, and build them better.
White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
In May 2025 I traveled to El Paso, Texas, with my father, who was lecturing there as part of an exchange program for Czech students. On the way to White Sands National Park, I talked our whole group into stopping at the White Sands Missile Range Museum first.
The museum sits on an active Army testing range, and the collection outside is essentially a timeline of the last eighty years of rocketry. What I had not expected was how old some of it is: this is where the U.S. tested its captured and rebuilt V-2 rockets after the war, which makes it one of the places where American rocketry actually started. I spent most of my time around the F-4 Phantom and the Patriot launcher. The Patriot is the one I keep thinking about — the system entered service in the 1980s and it is still deployed and still working, upgraded many times but built on the same foundation. Designing something that stays useful for forty years is a different kind of engineering than designing something impressive.
Dinner with Vladimír Remek
Vladimír Remek flew on Soyuz 28 in 1978 as the first Czechoslovak cosmonaut — and the first person in space who was neither Soviet nor American. He is also a long-time friend of my father, from the years when my father was involved in Czech space and science circles, so this was a family dinner rather than an interview.
We talked about his flight, his years in the Soviet space program, and later his time in Brussels. Honestly, I probably came away knowing more about his dogs, his tortoises, and his cottage than about orbital mechanics. But hearing someone describe that training and that launch as ordinary parts of his own life, rather than as history, made the whole thing feel much closer than it does in a book. He gave me a signed photograph, which I still have.
