Jan Sokol
Senior SRE at VictoriaMetrics
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Sokol is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and Cloud Architect with 11 years of experience designing and operating resilient, secure observability and microservice platforms for enterprise customers. He specializes in AWS architecture, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/OpenShift), and end-to-end monitoring stacks (Prometheus/Mimir, Loki, Tempo, InfluxDB/TICK) and has built Metrics-as-a-Service solutions at scale. Jan combines hands-on Golang development of custom exporters, API gateways and OAuth2 proxies with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD automation across private and cloud environments. His background includes PCI-DSS compliant banking architectures and large-scale deployments for clients like Swiss Re and Deutsche Börse, demonstrating strong compliance and high-availability design experience. Based in Prague, he pairs deep networking knowledge (L3–L4, DDoS mitigation interest) with a researcher’s curiosity from academic work in big-data platforms.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at National Cheng Kung UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, 2018, Master's degree, Computer Science, 2018 at Czech Technical University in PragueMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 2017, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 2017 at Københavns UniversitetElectrotechnics, Electrotechnics at SPŠE Pardubice
Czech, English
Github Skills (64)
monitoring10
dashboard10
mysql10
visualization9
analytics9
visualize9
grafana9
go9
prometheus9
influxdb9
data-visualization9
elasticsearch9
riemann8
opentelemetry8
scalable8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
j-sokol/j-sokol.github.io
Nov 2016 - Feb 2025
personal webpage; used on domain weedtime.cz
Contributions:42 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 3 months
personal-webpagedomainwebpage
j-sokol/master-thesis
Jul 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 8 PRs, 21 pushes in 4 months
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