Honza Široký
Chief Technology Officer at United Founders
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolHonza Široký is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 13 years of experience building cloud-native web platforms and scaling engineering organizations from early product to Series C and USD 100M ARR. He joined Mews as one of its first two developers and ultimately led a 170-person engineering organization that delivered a global hotel platform used by thousands of properties and hundreds of integrators. Now CTO at United Founders and an investment committee member and LP at Czech Founders VC, he combines operator experience with active angel investing and mentoring of early-stage founders and CTOs. His background spans full-stack development, backend systems, and industrial SCADA work, reflecting a hands-on engineer’s mindset even in senior roles. Based in Prague, he pairs academic training from Charles University with a lifelong passion for sports, which he credits for sustaining long-term focus and team leadership. Notably, he has transitioned from builder to talent-and-community-focused VC operator, helping founders compete across European borders.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Software Systems, Master of Science, Computer Science, Software Systems at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
English, Czech, French
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Github Skills (58)
javascript10
artifacts10
devcontainer10
functional-programming10
webjobs9
nuget-package9
fiscal8
compiler8
nuget8
philosophy7
signer6
iphone6
fiscalization6
windows-phone6
quickbooks6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MewsSystems/FuncSharp
Sep 2014 - Dec 2022
Functional programming in C#.
Contributions:13 reviews, 267 commits, 41 PRs in 8 years 4 months
functional-programming
siroky/aoc-2022
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:39 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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