Ivo Lašek is an engineering leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience driving cloud, data and analytics transformations across enterprise and product teams. Currently Engineering Director for Marketing Technology at Gen, he previously led company-wide cloud migrations and next-generation analytics platforms at Avast and MSD, blending hands-on architecture (microservices, event sourcing, data mesh) with people and stakeholder leadership. He founded two e-commerce ventures that were acquired by major Czech media firms, bringing a founder’s pragmatism to large-scale technical programs. Ivo holds a PhD in Semantic Web and Information Extraction and uniquely combines academic depth in linked data with practical expertise in big data stacks (Spark, Kafka, Cloudera) and multi-cloud deployments (GCP, AWS, Azure). Colleagues value him for turning complex research-driven requirements into production ML and experimentation platforms that materially improve customer engagement.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Semantic Web, Information Extraction and Information Retrieval, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Semantic Web, Information Extraction and Information Retrieval at Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Information Technology
Master, Software Engineering, Master, Software Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Semantic Web, Linked Data, Big Data, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Semantic Web, Linked Data, Big Data at Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), NUI Galway, Ireland
Software Engineering/Internet Computing, Software Engineering/Internet Computing at Technische Universität Wien / Technical University Vienna
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