Jan Sykora
Software Engineer at CAST AI
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJan Sykora is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and observability tooling, currently contributing to CAST AI after roles at SentinelOne, AppDynamics, and GoodData. He specializes in monitoring, distributed tracing, and API/proxy layers—designing authentication, rate limiting, and request enrichment for large-scale platforms. His background spans full-stack Java work and evolving into staff-level engineering, giving him both hands-on coding fluency and system-architecture perspective. Based in Prague, he combines production-grade engineering with a strong academic foundation (MSc in IT) and a consistent focus on making complex distributed behavior measurable and debuggable.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Information Technology, Master’s Degree, Information Technology at University of Economics, Prague
English
Github Skills (61)
kotlin10
netflix10
docker10
testing10
kubernetes-helm10
docker-compose10
compose10
java10
uid10
bulkhead10
resilience4j10
spring-boot10
fault-tolerance10
gradle-plugin10
functional-programming10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jansyk13/gradle-docker-compose-plugin
Jul 2018 - Nov 2022
Simplifies usage of Docker Compose for integration testing in Gradle environment.
Contributions:6 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 5 months
gradletestingdockercomposekotlin
jansyk13/limython
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:116 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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