Antonin Kral
Chief Technology Officer
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarAntonin Kral is a founder and seasoned technology leader with over 17 years of hands-on experience building large-scale distributed systems, video platforms, and data-driven products. He led engineering growth at Showmax from a small team to 100+ engineers and architected a microservices-based streaming platform handling billions of events daily, custom encoding and CDN infrastructure, and multi-codec support including experimental AV1. Antonin has repeatedly translated academic rigor (PhD-level background and research stints at CERN and Brookhaven) into commercial impact, founding and advising startups like Recombee and Mayadata while serving as VP of Engineering at IP Fabric. His consultancy nibbler.AI focuses on engineering leadership for machine learning and high-scale systems, and he’s comfortable moving between hands-on implementation and strategic product decisions. An active contributor to professional communities (IEEE, ACM) and a certified Widevine Implementation Partner, he blends deep networking and storage expertise with practical experience in IoT, recommendation engines, and cloud-native storage. Based in Texas with Czech roots, he’s equally at home optimizing petabyte-scale pipelines as mentoring teams to ship resilient, production-grade software.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (200)
unix10
decision-making10
ssm10
privacy10
ueberauth10
hosting10
stream10
hetzner-cloud10
qbcore-framework10
flask10
multicast-routing10
router10
nvme10
ide10
player10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
bobek/dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
vimeverzsh-pluginsneovimvimrc
bobek/aranym-debian
Jun 2010 - Mar 2021
Contributions:71 commits, 2 pushes in 10 years 11 months
debian
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