Jan Kovář
Team Lead at Barclays Capital
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Kovář is a seasoned software engineer and Team Lead based in Prague with 12 years of experience building high-performance Java backends and polished user interfaces. He combines deep Java/JEE expertise, performance and memory tuning, and enterprise integration (Spring) with long-term UI craftsmanship across JavaFX, Kotlin/JS, Adobe Flex and earlier portal/swing work. Jan has led teams at Barclays Capital and built mission-critical messaging systems for telecoms, while also driving sustainable engineering practices like CI/CD, governed release management and API design. Curious and pragmatic, he’s exploring Kotlin, functional languages such as Clojure, JavaFX and NoSQL—bringing a rare blend of hands-on coding, usability sensibility (Gestalt-aware UI design) and operational rigor.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer science, Master, Computer science at Czech Technical University in Prague
English, Czech
Github Skills (3)
kotlin10
programming-language10
javascript7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jean79/yested
Dec 2014 - Feb 2018
Contributions:247 commits, 126 PRs, 181 pushes in 3 years 2 months
web-applicationskotlin-frameworkjavascriptframeworkkotlin
jean79/kotlin-web-site
Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
kotlinprogramming-language
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