Jan Svager is a product-focused Sr. Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building data-driven products across startups, acquisitions, and enterprise-scale environments. He co-founded Understand Labs and led its product architecture to acquisition by GoodData, now driving the technical evolution of those products within an enterprise analytics platform. Previously he scaled frontend architecture and engineering practices at Workday, helping Stories become a product adopted by 500+ customers. Comfortable across frontend, backend, and delivery, Jan blends hands-on engineering with strategic product thinking to turn complex business and media data into clear, usable insights. Based in Liberec, Czechia, he combines deep practical experience with an engineer-founder perspective that favors shipping pragmatic, high-performance solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Technical University of Liberec
Contributions:4 PRs, 137 pushes, 22 branches in 2 years 1 month
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Jan Svager - Sr. Principal Software Engineer at GoodData