Aleš Zoulek
Staff Engineer at Pantheon
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolAleš Zoulek is a Senior Principal Engineer with 18 years of hands-on experience building resilient cloud platforms, leading SRE practices, and designing high-availability Python services. He focuses on pragmatic, evolutionary improvements—using Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD and CI/CD to make infrastructure reproducible and incident-ready—while championing robust monitoring and on-call workflows. A former Python technical lead at Pantheon and now driving SRE adoption at FLYR for Hospitality, he blends architecture, automation and practical incident response to help organizations scale. He contributes to notable Django ecosystem projects (improving django-redis-cache and django-constance), showing a long-standing commitment to backend reliability and performance. Active in the Python community as co-founder and host of Prague Python Meetups and a past Pyvec board member, he pairs technical depth with cross-team leadership and a preference for measurable, low-risk change.
18 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnasium Jana KepleraCharles University
Github Skills (10)
caching10
admin-interface10
python10
redis10
back-end-development10
django10
database-design9
testing8
pickle8
javascript5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-constance
Aug 2010 - Jun 2012
Dynamic Django settings.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 10 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Aleš contributed to the development of the Django-Constance project, focusing on backend functionality. They added setup files, implemented an admin interface for managing settings, and refactored code for efficiency, demonstrating knowledge of Django and Redis integration. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to the admin UI, and introduced support for additional settings. The changes involved features like form saving and validating, and they also included bug fixes and code refactoring.
django-settings
sebleier/django-redis-cache
Jul 2011 - Aug 2011
A Redis cache backend for django
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Aleš primarily contributed to improving the Redis cache backend for Django. Their work involved fixing incompatibilities with the Django API, optimizing caching logic by setting expiration in one command, and refactoring the code by using pipelines for setting multiple values. They also addressed bugs, such as handling empty keys in `mget` calls, and updated the code to use Django's exceptions. These changes aimed to enhance the efficiency and reliability of the cache implementation.
backenddjangoredis-cache
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