Summary
Jakub Zapletal is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping robust, test-driven services across payments, gaming, and IoT domains. Polyglot in Go, Rust, JavaScript and PHP (with familiarity in Solidity, Python, Ruby and Java), he has repeatedly redesigned critical systems—matchmaking, payments, and blockchain/USDC flows—while improving test strategy and code quality. He combines architecture-level thinking (SOA, microservices, high-level design) with DevOps expertise building Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS, GCP and Azure. Comfortable leading teams and onboarding processes, he has a track record of turning legacy platforms into automated, production-grade systems and was recognized for exceptional company-wide impact. Based in London with Czech roots, he enjoys tackling quality and reliability challenges and learning new technologies to drive measurable improvements.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Managerial informatics, Bachelor's Degree, Managerial informatics at Brno University of Technology
English, Czech