Jakub Kohout
Chief Technology Officer Engineering Unit Manager at Lundegaard
Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJakub Kohout is a pragmatic technology leader and full-stack engineer with nine years of experience, currently serving as CTO and Engineering Unit Manager while co-founding Encode Solutions. He specializes in front-end JavaScript—five years with React and React Native plus Gatsby and headless CMS integrations—while retaining deep backend roots in Kotlin/Spring, Node.js, and long-term Java/Liferay expertise. Jakub has led JavaScript teams, defined company-wide frontend standards, and delivered bank-grade and enterprise portal projects, including integrations of React into Liferay and OSGi module development. He blends hands-on implementation (custom API middleware, GraphQL, REST) with architectural planning, cost estimation and developer coaching. A continuous learner with formal coursework from MIT and EPFL and side interests in Scala, he aims to combine practical engineering with research that benefits humanity or the environment.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, A, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, A at University of Hradec Králové, Faculty of Informatics and ManagementComputer Science, A, Computer Science, A at Universitetet i Stavanger / University of Stavanger (UiS)
English, French, Czech, Slovak
Github Skills (53)
devstack10
react-native9
ios9
android9
react9
theme-development9
cross-platform8
gatsby-theme8
emotion8
rebass8
mobile7
loader7
ruby7
workspace7
gatsbyjs7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lundegaard/redux-extensible-store
Jan 2018 - Jan 2020
Way to asynchronously extend redux reducer
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 11 months
reactreducerredux-reducerasynchronouslyreducers
jamescoq/react-union
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
Collection of tools allowing to React.js applications to run on specific server-side environments such as Content Management Systems (CMS) or Portals.
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
cmsportalsreactreact-jsserver-side
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