Jan Poctavek
Cloud Architect at Cloud4com
Bratislava, Region of Bratislava, Slovakia
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Poctavek is a Cloud Architect with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and automating resilient, high-performance infrastructure across hybrid and public clouds, datacenters and bare-metal environments. He blends a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering with deep systems expertise—from low-level OS/kernel work and 400Gbps networking to Terraform, Kubernetes and secrets management—helping organisations translate complex requirements into production-ready platforms. He has led cloud platform builds, PoCs and automated documentation pipelines, and has a track record of solving obscure interoperability and scalability corner cases. Known for rigorous analytical thinking, Jan often surfaces subtle failure modes early in designs and automates repeatable recovery and observability workflows to keep systems reliable at scale. Based in Bratislava, he pairs research-grade curiosity with practical delivery across vendor ecosystems and large-scale deployments.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Telecommunications Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Telecommunications Engineering at Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave
English
Github Skills (103)
kvm10
python10
coredns10
gcp10
automation10
infrastructure10
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dns-record10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
paf10
smartos10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
YanChii/ansible-role-postgres-ha
Feb 2017 - Oct 2021
Create postgresql HA auto-failover cluster using pcs, pacemaker and PAF
Contributions:60 commits, 15 PRs, 44 pushes in 4 years 8 months
pafauto-failoverpacemakerkubernetesfailover
erigones/esdc-erigonos-overlay
Nov 2017 - Oct 2019
Danube Cloud :: ErigonOS SmartOS Overlay
Contributions:17 commits, 11 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 11 months
smartosoverlay
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