Summary
Jan Bednařík is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on Java/Kotlin engineer with 12+ years building enterprise-grade backend systems and leading engineering teams, now serving as CTO at BellaDati. He has deep expertise in Spring-based microservices, REST, databases (Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB) and cloud-native tooling like Docker and Kubernetes, combined with strong DevOps experience using Jenkins, Maven and Liquibase. Jan has driven mission-critical banking and analytics projects, led cross-cultural teams, and transitioned from senior developer to technical leadership while maintaining active coding fluency. Beginning his career as a prolific freelance webdesigner and TYPO3 extension author—his CoolUri extension has attracted substantial downloads—he uniquely blends product-minded UX sensibility with robust backend architecture. Based in Prague, he prefers to stay in his current role and brings a pragmatic, quality-focused approach to scaling systems and teams.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bc, Informatics, Bc, Informatics at Masarykova univerzita
Mgr (Ing), Informatics, Mgr (Ing), Informatics at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava
English, German, Czech