Jakub Žaba
Engineering Team Lead at Kiwi.com
Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolJakub Žaba is an Engineering Team Lead based in Prague with a decade of experience building and scaling web platforms, currently leading engineering at Kiwi.com since 2019 after progressing from a senior software engineer role there. He brings deep hands-on backend expertise in PHP/Nette ecosystems, message-driven architectures (RabbitMQ), search (Elasticsearch), and databases from MySQL to MongoDB, combined with practical front-end skills in JavaScript/CSS. Jakub has a track record of mentoring teams—having led junior developers early in his career—and of improving delivery practices (notably mastering Git rebases in large projects). Comfortable in fast-paced travel-tech environments, he blends pragmatic engineering with team coaching to turn complex product requirements into robust, testable systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology
English
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Github Skills (27)
sendgrid10
kiwi10
styled-components10
nette10
react-component10
event-aggregator10
orbit10
translation9
ios9
newsletter9
android9
php9
component-library9
mobile-application9
react9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
filipsuk/eventigo-web
Jan 2016 - Aug 2017
Events aggregator and newsletter
Contributions:213 commits, 14 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 7 months
event-aggregatorphpnetteeventssendgrid
bylonaspet/bank
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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