Tom Hejda

Background

About Tom Hejda

Tom Hejda is a Senior Support Manager and a LaTeX specialist at Overleaf, the free online collaborative LaTeX editor. He makes sure the team runs smoothly and is there to help his teammates do their job as best as they can. He also helps with team-to-team communication and, making sure everyone is heard and listened to. He is an avid LaTeX user, so much that he writes everything in it, even casual letters, meeting notes, or business cards, and as an experienced teacher, researcher, and LaTeX user both as the author and journal editor, he is here to support the users as necessary. When approaching issues, his motto is:"Impossible now, miracles in 3 days." Tom was also a post-doctoral researcher at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University; his role in a 4-member team is primarily in designing and implementing algorithms to support various ideas in theoretical mathematics and computer science. He had been doing research for over 10 years and had spent a similar period teaching at various universities. Tom likes to play the organ, the piano, and the guitar; he is an amateur composer and he regularly accompanies church services on the organ.