The Polish "nerd" grew up with the famous meme, got a job at SpaceX and participated in the launch of the Falcon Heavy
On the Russian Internet, this photo with four boys at a table has long been a meme about the most boring party. On February 8, it became known that one of his heroes named Tomasz Czajka (Tomasz Czajka, pictured second from left) participated in the launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket, which the whole world watched the day before.
Pole Tomas Chaika joined SpaceX in 2014, in the Falcon Heavy launch project, he developed software for the rocket control system.
Before SpaceX, Chaika worked at Google for six years. The developer graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics of the University of Warsaw and the prestigious American Purdue University, and at school was a prize-winner and winner of international computer science Olympiads.
Having started his career, the developer did not stop participating in programming contests and won several prizes at the TopCoder Open, and together with colleagues received the main award of the TopCoder Collegiate Challenge.
The photo with a Seagull that became a meme was taken in 1997 at a scientific camp in the Polish city of Zwardon. There is still this photo on the camp's website.