Vladimir Cervenka, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Purchase, Ny, Us

Dunö, Kalmar County, Se

🧰 Overseeing the engineering organization - three teams of remote developers, QA, DevOps, SMs🧰 Spearheding development of DB management products, including a Cloudbased/Sovereign DBaaS solution (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.)✅ Implemented robust security measures, including a zero-trust policy, SAST, DAST and password management ✅ Designed and executed a hiring strategy and four-stage hiring process, encompassing both technical and non-technical assessments✅ Enhanced feature and release predictability by introducing Scrum and new QA strategies across teams✅ Elevated employee engagement through several surveys, company values definition, kudos system, 360-degree feedback mechanism, etc.

Austin, Texas, Us

𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:✅ Successfully transitioned product development to a new local team✅ Tripled the headcount of the original team✅ Established a new team and strategy to support technical updates for three existing products✅ Spearheaded the creation and launch of a cloud-based cybersecurity product✅ Reduced testing time from over a week to two days, enhanced release predictability and software quality metrics by implementing automated testing (Pytest)🧰𝗗𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀:• Accountable for managing 5 delivery streams • Leding two teams of full-stack developers, QA and Scrum Masters, both on-site and remotely (US-based)• Hiring• Do one-on-one meetings, coaching team members and facilitating its professional development🚪Transitioned from SolarWinds when the MSP division (now N-able) was separated, resulting in the discontinuation of operations at the Brno branch.

Brno, Cz

𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:✅ Reduced testing time by 40%, established a regular delivery and improved software quality metrics by implementing automated testing (Selenium)✅ Introduced the LeSS (Scaling Scrum) for three Java development teams (20+ people)✅ Established a release process, reproducible by any team member✅ Broke down the monolithic structure into manageable components✅ Established and allocated dedicated capacity for addressing technical debt within each sprint🧰𝗗𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀:• Hiring and resource management• Spearheding development of management product for eBay• Do one-on-one meetings, coaching team members and facilitating its professional development

Austin, Texas, Us

𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:✅ Created and developed a software department from scratch✅ Implemented an Agile development in a time-sensitive environment✅ Significantly optimized development processes by pioneering a system for the reuse of software libraries and implementations across the organization, resulting in notable reductions in development time and resource utilization✅ Engineered cutting-edge software solutions, including a car dashboard with boot-up time under 3 seconds on a constrained hardware with Linux🧰𝗗𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀:• Hiring, contracting and resource management efforts• Defining software architecture for new projects• Providing strategic support for business development initiatives, including Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) creation, risk analysis, and cost estimation• Serving as the primary interface between the engineering team and clients🚪Departed as a result of the closure of the Brno branch

Brno, Cz

𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:✅ Pioneered a patent-pending technique that revolutionized data processing on constrained IoT devices, improving efficiency by 8.36 times compared to conventional methods✅ Designed and implemented a communication system for space shuttles and their satellites in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Honeywell Technology Solutions✅ Published 13 papers in the fields of Cryptography and IoT✅ Taught university courses for over 1120 hours🧰𝗗𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀:• R&D on efficient data processing and wireless mesh transmission (6 projects)• Project Manager (3 projects)• Advanced Networking trainer

𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:✅ Designed the architecture and developed proof of concept (POC) for a ground data acquisition system tailored for airships (IoT).

𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:✅ Design and implement a software-defined radio (SDR) system to control traffic lights for public transportation.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Systems And Networking

Education record

Master Of Science (M.Sc.)