Jakub K.

Jakub K.

Senior Software Engineer

Prague, Czech Republic
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About Me

I am a highly skilled Full-Stack developer and Engineering Manager with over ten years of programming experience in SaaS, E-commerce, and FinTech. As a start-up creator and founder, I played many roles and I was involved in the full business cycle. My hands-on experience in software development, system administration, and testing were completed by my involvement in marketing, operations, and people management. I love contributing to my community by sharing my accumulated know-how. I do this by being a mentor, a coach, a content creator, and a tech public speaker.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Software Engineer
2019 - Present (5 years)
Remote
  • Create and develop innovative software solutions for different clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

OAK'S LAB
OAK'S LAB
Chief Product Officer / Director Of Engineering
2020 - Present (4 years)
Czech Republic
  • Oversaw and managed concept-to-launch, MLP, and MLP-to-series-A tech startups with a valuation of over $100M and ~$1M MRR. Coached and mentored a team of 10 PMs, Directors of Product, and an agile coach resulting in better products and happier people.

  • Scaled multiple product teams to the size of 50+. Drove a data-focused and user-centric product management approach, ranging from discovery, through development, to validation and launch, and beyond.

  • Implemented a tailored version of the Spotify model to address people management and growth. Led a team of 3 engineering managers, constantly seeking to improve engineering quality, efficiency, and happiness in line with the company and technology vision.

OAK'S LAB
OAK'S LAB
Lead Full Stack Developer
2019 - 2020 (1 year)
Czech Republic
  • Led a team of 4 engineers of a cybersecurity product. Managed the overall architecture and infrastructure, including a hands-on coding in Node, Prisma, Nexus, Next.js & GraphQL.

  • Oversaw a technical roadmap, balancing business priorities with technical quality and debt. Achieved an increase from $150K to $500K AAR in 6 months.

  • Implemented and improved agile and engineering processes to ensure more quality output, fewer bugs, and velocity increase, resulting in faster product growth.

MANA
MANA
Chief Technology Officer
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
Prague, Czech Republic
  • Finding feasible solutions by applying the technical knowledge with my 3 pillars: eCommerce/development, data & support.

  • Developed an eCommerce solution migration to the new platform with new design and research.

  • Set up cross-company project management processes (Scrum, Kanban, Gantt).

Ušetřeno.cz
Ušetřeno.cz
Chief Technology Officer
2018 - 2018
Prague, Czech Republic
  • Implemented GDPR solutions, being able to increase transparency, communication, and velocity of my developer teams.

  • Implemented scrum and kanban processes, as well as employed new developers, supporters and scrum masters.

  • Analyzed and estimated projects up to 600 MDs, also delivering due diligence IT/IT Risk tasks for our new owners.

CeraCare
CeraCare
Senior Software Engineer
2016 - 2017 (1 year)
London, UK
  • Built a new CRM for a London health care company, focused on improving business processes across all departments.

  • Developed an end-to-end product that challenged the use of a new language and framework.

  • Built a Django REST CRM MVP in less than 6 months, being able to quickly push the production ready code for the company.

Fullpast
Fullpast
Head of development
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Remote
  • Responsible for software architecture and restful application API backend in Laravel.

  • Maintained an admin dashboard with statistics and management tools by creating a little PHP wrapper for Google Charts.

  • Supervised continuous deployment via envoyer & Gitlab CI.

WSAD Gaming
WSAD Gaming
Founder
2013 - 2014 (1 year)
Prague, Czech Republic
  • Started a YouTube gaming videos aggregator with a social network for YouTubers, with more than 1M+ daily requests to YouTube for updating our database.

  • Successfully handled a huge amount of data, aggregations, logging & monitoring for our web application.

  • Used the company as a starting point that evolved into future web development projects.

MYPS
MYPS
CEO/CTO/Co-founder
2012 - 2015 (3 years)
Prague, Czech Republic
  • Built a development company that delivered over 30 successful projects.

  • Developed a secure web application and back-end database to automate legal processes at a global corporation. Built an entire encryption system preventing critical information from being visible

  • Responsible for Project Management, looking for new contracts and market opportunities for the company.

Contractor
Contractor
Senior Software Engineer
2009 - 2017 (8 years)
Remote, [object Object]
  • Developed web applications using mainly PHP/ Laravel Framework, as well as other back-end technologies.

  • Managed the entire web application development life cycle, from concept to delivery and post-launch.

  • Acted as a Software engineer that can grasp all the work of databases, servers, systems engineering, or clients.

IT2B
IT2B
Web Developer
2008 - 2009 (1 year)
Brno , Czech Republic
  • Created web applications in the native PHP OOP code for a consulting company offering training and implementation of technological solutions.

  • Developed the technology that helps companies improve internal processes, manage content and documents, implement e-learning.

  • Led a team of five developers to successfully complete projects.

Portfolio

Founder - FBMAN
Founder - FBMAN

Founded a web development application for creating Facebook contests. Used PHP framework Nette and edited in AngularJS. Responsible for complete development from analysis, through design, to coding. Users can use the web application to create their Facebook photo, video, quiz or question competition.

Organization crew member, mentor, speaker and streamer - Péhápkaři
Organization crew member, mentor, speaker and streamer - Péhápkaři

Created an educational community for Czech developers. Contributed as a trainer, mentor and online streamer. Slack workspace comprises of over 70 channels at this moment, from frameworks like Symfony, Nette, Zend, Laravel, to more general topics like deployment, docker, aws, git, phpstorm. Over 2000 active members benefit from the content. Responsible for live streams on twitch.tv/pehapkari, a unique source of information in the Czech language for web developers. Manager for #Laravel, #Livestream and #General channels on Slack developer community.

Co-founder - WSAD gaming website
Co-founder - WSAD gaming website

Developed a web application that aggregates YouTube gaming videos, as well as a social network for YouTubers. WSAD Gaming was connected to the YouTube API, Twitter API, Facebook API, Twitch API. Built a script that processed videos with more than 15 different criteria, such as finding category from name, description and comments or tagging video based on the most used tokens.

Education

BSc. Computer Science
BSc. Computer Science
Czech Technical University, Prague
2010 - 2012 (2 years)