Brett Nekolny
Engineering at Pluto Bio
Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolBrett Nekolny is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing platforms and connected services, most recently joining Pluto Bio after senior leadership roles at Smartsheet and Brandfolder. He has a strong track record of moving monolithic systems to decoupled, microservice architectures, improving performance and cost efficiency—one initiative reduced API traffic on a hotspot by 86% and another cut per-item content costs dramatically. Brett blends hands-on engineering, technical hiring and team development, and cross-organizational integration work from his time leading Connected Fitness platforms at Under Armour. He holds an M.S. focused on human-computer interaction and mechanical engineering, and brings a research-minded problem-solving approach informed by prior VR and neural-net driven projects. Based in Prague, he pairs product-aware technical judgment with a knack for creating reusable patterns that accelerate delivery and developer productivity.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Human Computer Interaction and Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Human Computer Interaction and Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University - Graduate College
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Github Skills (88)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
brandfolder/cropperjs-react
Aug 2019 - Oct 2022
React component wrapper for CropperJS using react hooks
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
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bnekolny/chatparser
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Chat parser to give feedback on language development
Contributions:153 PRs, 219 pushes, 155 branches in 7 months
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