Jakub Svoboda
Senior Engineering Manager at Rohlik Group
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Czechia
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Top SchoolJakub Svoboda is a senior engineering manager with nine years of experience building and leading cloud-native teams across e-commerce, consumer products, and healthcare. He currently leads multiple cross-domain teams at Rohlik Group, driving end-to-end ownership, engineering metrics, and adoption of agentic development practices to boost ROI and delivery velocity. Previously he scaled serverless product teams at the LEGO Group and defined cloud strategy and foundation tooling in Azure/AWS as Lead Cloud Architect at LEO Pharma. Jakub combines hands-on technical contributions with strategic leadership—recruiting and growing teams, owning product roadmaps, and improving architecture, code review, and testing workflows. He holds an MSc in IT Management and Business Economics from Copenhagen Business School and a bachelor’s in Informatics from Prague, and maintains a public thinking space at jakubsvoboda.net showing his interest in tooling and process innovation. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and data-driven, with a knack for translating operational pain points into measurable engineering improvements.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), IT Management and Business Economics, Master of Science (MSc), IT Management and Business Economics at Copenhagen Business SchoolBachelor's degree (Bc.), Informatics, Bachelor's degree (Bc.), Informatics at University of Economics, Prague
English, German, Czech, Danish
Github Skills (48)
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azure10
csharp10
microsoft9
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microsoft-azure9
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noty9
azure-pipelines8
hyper8
toastr8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jakubsvobodacz/Awesome-Engineering-Manager
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
💡 A curated list of resources for engineering managers.
Contributions:18 reviews, 12 commits, 34 PRs in 10 months
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jakubsvobodacz/jakubsvoboda
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
My personal landing page
Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 1 month
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