2022 - present

Head of Technology

eMan a.s.

Leading the technology efforts in the Automotive & Industry 4.0 division, I am responsible for:

• mentoring and development of technology teams
• setting the standards for architecture and delivery to achieve the quality eMan is known for
• preparing and leading the efforts for presale activities

The projects delivered or worked upon include:

• System for Digital Check of Vignettes - the design of architecture for enforcement platform for Czech police and financial services to check and validate the possession of vignettes.
• System for Digital Landscape planning - the design of architecture for large scale government digitalization project.

As part of the job, the responsibilities of IT Manager also included:

• leading the IT Operations and DevOps teams
• standardizing the ticketing and service request processes using IT4IT methodology
• designing a new infrastructure landscape and implementing the transition project

2019 - present

Freelance Solution and Cloud Architect

Prague, Czech Republic

As a freelance solution architect, I offer following services to several clients on project / part-time basis:

• Mentoring of customer engineers, training of clients and internal staff.
• Ensuring the deployment of high quality deliverables to the client environment.
• Providing technical architecture expertise and solution design guidance.

The projects delivered or worked upon include:

• New CRM and ERP platform for Solar vendor - leading the effort of transforming the IT landscape of Solar vendor to new set of technologies based on custom-developed CRM and ERP platform Odoo. The work included a large scale integration platform based on event-sourcing and queuing principles.

2019 - 2021

Solutions Architect for Automotive and IoT

eMan a.s.

Working as the Solutions architect for mobile application development company, I am responsible for:

• Producing the presale documentation, working with clients on definition of new projects, preparing the initial model of architecture and setup for development
• Working as a member of Scrum team, preparing the deliverables and collaborating with customer to define the acceptance criteria and roadmap for next sprints
• Design of the API and Integration between systems, working on system specifications for customers
• Responsible for DevOps setup on corporate projects, preparing the cloud setup, development guidelines and initial backend setup for mobile applications

The projects delivered or worked upon include:

• Mobile Platform for Czech's largest automotive producer - the design of architecture for a new version of mobile application platform, integration of Clean architecture principles for mobile application and Microservices in Cloud for backend, approval and deployment of new design patterns across several application teams
• Minialarm architecture - the architecture for Minialarm platform, the consolidation of documentation and growth opportunity designs

2017 - 2018

Web & Digital Platform Architect

W.A.G. payment solutions, a.s.

As a Solutions Architect on the Digital Delivery team, I am responsible for leading the transition of an existing business towards newly enabled digital opportunities:

• Architecture a greenfield web platform for digital projects based on a Node.js serverless backend and React SPA frontend.
• Oversee the creation of a business case and the successful delivery of all advantages that come with a digital platform.
• Integrate new digital projects into already existing backends.
• Work with multiple vendor and internal delivery teams to collaborate on individual deliveries with a single goal in mind.

2014 - 2017

Solution Architect Team Lead

Provident Financial s.r.o.

Working as the Czech market team leader on the Solution Architecture & Development team, I was responsible for a team of 3 solution architects and 4 developers (ranging from internal employees to contractors) in the following areas:

• Managing the Czech Provident application architecture, integration principles and the common architecture repository.
• Delivering solution concepts, estimations and integration architecture for group-wide and local projects and programs (see below).
• Leading an in-house development team using the Kanban methodology, providing coaching to new team members and setting the development standards.

During the time of employment with Provident I've also worked as following roles:

• Solutions Architect
• IT Systems Development Specialist