With over 35 years of experience designing and deploying highly distributed applications, I have successfully managed over 100 innovative projects for various industries such as aviation, heat engineering, power engineering, and mining. I am also the creator of the "Process Observer" concept, the architect behind the CommServer™ communication software package utilized for optimizing data transfer, and the author and architect of the SmartFactory™ workflow management system.I've been an active member of the OPC Foundation for 14 years, participating in projects that pertain to the design, adoption, deployment, and maintenance of the OPC Unified Architecture.I have a Master's in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Process Control Engineering and Robotics from the Technical University of Lodz (TUL).I am engaged in many research projects as a researcher, university teacher, and scientist at the Technical University of Lodz (TUL). I am the author of a vast variety of publications, lectures, presentations, classes, and training sessions.Recently I’ve been working on a Programming in Practice discipline. This engineering and educational concept is supported using code snippets gathered by the following GitHub repositorympostol/TP publicly available at <https://github.com/mpostol/TP>I’m also publishing on Udemy. Check out the following courses:- Programming in Practice - Executive Summary; Udemy, 2021 publicly available at <https://www.udemy.com/course/pipintroduction/?referralCode=E1B8E460A82ECB36A835>- Programming in Practice - Information Computation; Udemy, 2023 publicly available at <https://www.udemy.com/course/information-computation/?referralCode=9003E3EF42419C6E6B21>Follow me on GitHub, LinkedIn, Udemy, Facebook, WordPress, Nuget, TUL, ResearchGate, X or YouTube. All links you can find on my ORCID profile.