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Prague, Prague, Cz

San Francisco, California, Us

- Part of the engineering leadership to co-design and execute engineering structural changes to face market turn-down. We successfully executed 2 reorganizations- Found, managed, and oversaw a new product tribe comprising of 50 software and ML engineers, PMs, and designers. Provided structure, hiring plans, visions, and missions- Managed managers of six global teams, e.g. AI/ML, integrations & APIs, or Permissions- Scale up and transform the ML team into a fully operational AI team that introduced ProductboardAI - a set of generative chatGPT-based features that take advantage of tons of gathered customer feedback- Designed and rolled out engineering-wide programs - e.g . teams' and individuals' health framework and the new delivery framework based on ShapeUp

San Francisco, California, Us

- Accountable for the Insights product tribe, overseeing 40+ software and ML engineers, product managers, and designers- Co-defined yearly and quarterly strategies to guide the tribe- Successfully scaled from 2 to 5 autonomous teams, define a strategy, hire 20+ new team members, onboard them- Managed managers of five teams; helped them set and achieve career growth; it resulted in two promotions- Successfully introduced, rolled out tested a delivery framework based on scrum principles to enable the implementation of large initiatives with high predictability- Organized tribe-wide technical leadership, and collaborated with them to define a yearly technical strategy to fix the biggest tribal technical debt- Found and organized the ML team from scratch to build brand-new machine learning AI features- Tribe budget holder, staffing, and capacity planning

Praha 1, Hlavní Město Praha, Cz

Served as CTO in the best-rated taxi-hailing app in the Czech Republic, ±50 employees.- As a company, we achieved 5x revenue growth within four years- Oversaw the entire engineering department, consisting of back-end, front-end, mobile apps and BI teams- Scaled the engineering from 5 to 20 individuals, introduced and rolled out a new team structure to optimize the delivery- Represented engineering at the exec level, and contributed to company-wide strategies- Led the transition to AWS and managed services, e.g., Mongo to Atlas.- Built a business intelligence team from scratch, enabling data-driven decision-making across departments.We used the following technologies: Java, AWS, Kubernetes, Mongo, Snowflake, Tableau

Houston, Texas, Us

We redesigned the on-premise HP Service Virtualization to the cloud. I provided architecture changes, and technical designs and implemented key features to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance for the simulator.We used primarily Java and achieved rapid scalability with Kubernetes and Docker. We used Redis, Kafka or Casandra.

Houston, Texas, Us

Analyzed, invented, designed, and implemented key components for the on-premise simulation server. The core was based on the CPU-intensive .NET-based simulation engine that processed rules. We put emphasis on low latency and scalability,I'm the owner of two software patents, [1](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130339934), [2](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130275108).My primary responsibility was the persistence layer on top of the RDBMS where I achieved 10x latency decrease and 10x data size reduction.Languages and frameworks: Domain-driven design, NET/C#, NHibernate, Spring.NET, MS SQL Server, REST, http/tcp/udp etc.

Praha 4, Praha, Cz

Software engineer working at the Document Management System delivered for the Czech Government - Decentralized storage and system for managing documents. Technologies: Java, Spring, Hibernate, Apache Jackrabbit.

Software designer at the accountant information system for pharmaceutical company Sanofi. Technologies: EJB 3.0, JSF, Seam, Hibernate, SQL, Maven

Software developer at metrictBEST and dispoBEST products, the analytical tools for process optimizations.Technologies: Java, Spring, Hibernate, PostgreSQL.

Ing./Msc., Computer Software Engineering

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