Software & ProductPassion for management
I am a seasoned manager that offers rich experience in governing innovative product strategies and building high-performance cross-functional teams. I bring a unique combination of a customer-oriented mind with a strong software engineering background.
GoverningProduct Strategy
I bring experience setting up product vision and creating a go-to-market strategy for innovative products based on user and costumer research.
Cross-TeamCollaboration
I build relatioships to promote collaboration across different functions of a company and I cut through silos to deliver business critical outcomes.
SoftwareEngineering
I maintain open-source projects, write blogs, and create YouTube videos to stay in touch with my engineering roots.
Employment14 years of management experience
I have had the privilege of being a part of a story of exceptional companies. My career has started as an entrepreneur and later a CEO of my own company developing a software for the elderly. I continued as a senior program manager in a web department of a large company in Texas, USA. Now, in New Zealand, as a technical product manager, I am focusing now on learning everything there is to learn about challenges of distributed identity systems from both technical and business points of view.
MATTR, New Zealand
Technical Product Manager | June 2021 - present | Auckland, New Zealand
mattr.global
MATTR is a software company focused on restoring trust in digital identity. Our products provide the building blocks to solve and remove the historical challenges of digital security, privacy and data verification.
MOHCovid Pass
As a Product Manager in MATTR, I have collaborated on requirements for the underlying technology implementing Covid Pass Credential for the Ministry Of Health in New Zealand.
ManagingDigital Experience
I have been governing products under Digital Experience team and successfully rallying cross functional collaboration across the company in order the deliver on critial systems for marketing, content management, and self-service.
ProcessImprovements
I have been working with the company leadership on improvements of processes aimed to promote better cross-team collaboration and sharing product vision and market context for different squads.
Soul Machines, New Zealand
Technical Product Manager | September 2018 - June 2021 | Auckland, New Zealand
www.soulmachines.com
Artificial intelligence technology startup focused on development and research of digital people and human-machine collaboration.
AIProduct Strategy
Product and go-to-market strategy for Soul Machine's AI engineering and research teams to lead the world in artificial general intelligence (AGI) research and autonomous animation technology for digital people.
AI PlatformReleases
Release management of the company's AI platform Human OS coordinating across engineering and business teams to maximize outcomes for customers.
AgileTransformation
Supporting the adoption of agile thinking across engineering and research teams to provide them flexibility to answer user and customer needs.
Solarwinds, Texas, USA
Senior Program Manager | August 2017 - September 2018 | Austin,Texas, USA
Program Manager | August 2013 - August 2017 | Brno, Czechia, EU
www.solarwinds.com
Web Development Department. 3200+ employees in USA and worldwide
EngineeringManagement
Management of distributed multinational engineering teams including continuous delivery best practices, hiring, employee performance reviews, coaching, and mentoring.
Budget-CriticalDelivery
Successfully delivered time and budget-critical project for migration of the company's high-traffic websites to SiteCore C#/.NET CMS with one of the largest internal project costs in the history of the company.
AgileAdoption
Started Agile Scrum process transformation of the first teams in SolarWinds with adoption of new tools for team collaboration across different time zones.
Celebrio Software, Czechia, EU
Chief Executive Officer & Founder | 2011 - 2013 | Brno, Czechia, EU
Innovative startup creating software for the elderly with focus on customer-centring and user-testing validated product development.
StartupEntrepreneurship
As a startup founder and CEO, I engaged in innovative business development, business negotiations, investor deals, partnerships, and critical cash-flow budget planning.
InnovationRecognition
The winner of Microsoft Imagine Cup and the winner of Vodafone Idea of the Year with further recognition by appearances on national television, and featured articles in prestigious media including Czech Forbes.
BusinessSuccess
We worked with prominent software companies and secured introduction to the market through a business deal with the largest Czech e-commerce company.
Independent Contractor, Czechia, EU
Entrepreneur | 2005 - 2011 | Czechia, EU
Development of proprietary open-source PHP content management system Albireo.
Website development and administration.
Web hosting and support services.
Technical Skills20 years of programming
I have always loved technology especially when it comes to web and AI. I pride myself for continuously cultivating my technical skills as an open-source developer and a blogger.
This website and its AI have been designed and built by me.
Full-StackDeveloper
Enthusiast in AI technology, especially natural language processing. Full-stack web developer with experience with HTML5, CSS, React, Node.js, Java, C#, Ruby on Rails, and PHP.
Open-SourceActivity
Founder of @7urtle/lambda, an open-source JavaScript library for functional programming. Enjoy programming in JavaScript by writing elegant functional code with brilliant reusability, high-speed performance, and effortless testability.
MediumBlogger
Blogger of agile, product management, programming best practices and programming languages paradigms with about 10,000 views per month.
My Medium Blog
University EducationMasters in applied informatics
Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics
www.muni.cz/en | 2008 – 2014
Masters’ degree in Applied Informatics | NZQA Assessment Level 9
MasterThesis
"Best Practices in Scalable Web Development" based on research of cloud technology and distributed systems.
LaSArISLaboratory
Founding member of "Lab of Software Architectures and Information Systems" with Web Operating Systems.
NotableAwards
Holder of Dean's award and Intel award for outstanding achievement in computer science.