Jakub K.

Jakub K.

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.

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Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Software Engineer
2019 - Present (6 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 (5 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.

Showcase

Founder - FBMAN
Founder - FBMAN
  • Developed a web application for creating Facebook contests.

  • Utilized PHP framework Nette and AngularJS for development.

  • Managed the entire development lifecycle, from analysis to coding.

Organization crew member, mentor, speaker and streamer - Péhápkaři
Organization crew member, mentor, speaker and streamer - Péhápkaři
  • Established an educational community for Czech developers.

  • Actively contributes as a trainer, mentor, and streamer.

  • Manages Slack workspaces for over 70 channels covering various topics like Symfony, Nette, Laravel, and Docker.

Co-founder - WSAD gaming website
Co-founder - WSAD gaming website
  • Developed a web application aggregating YouTube gaming videos.

  • Built a social network for YouTubers connected to the YouTube API, Twitter API, Facebook API, and Twitch API.

  • Implemented a script to process videos with multiple criteria (category, description, comments, and tokens).

Education

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