Jaroslav Šmolík
VP Of Engineering at Zenbase
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJaroslav Šmolík is a VP of Engineering and backend-focused leader with nine years of experience designing resilient APIs, data pipelines, and payment systems from Prague. He blends hands-on engineering—shipping distributed queue architectures, rate limiters validated under heavy concurrency, and SQL/BigQuery performance tuning—with operational ownership of SOC2, PCI DSS, and infra compliance. Jaroslav excels at turning messy production problems into repeatable systems (e.g., migrating monolith cron jobs to Cloud Tasks and rebuilding SMS and notification stacks for bilingual, DB-driven rendering). He hires and scales teams thoughtfully, codifying onboarding, tech-debt standards, and company-wide conventions while enabling non-technical teams with self-service analytics. Known for a culture of open learning and "TIL"/failure-sharing, he pairs Clean/Hexagonal architecture advocacy with pragmatic delivery.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Web and Software Engineering, Master's degree, Web and Software Engineering at Faculty of Information Technology CTU in Prague
Czech, English
Github Skills (176)
env10
testing10
emoji10
kitty10
backend10
javascript10
gitmoji10
api10
pgtyped10
opengl10
react-editor10
typescript10
conventional-changelog10
commit-message10
jsdom10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AckeeCZ/crudella
Jan 2019 - Oct 2020
Tool for developing generic service layer for RESTful CRUD API in your Node.js backend application.
Contributions:1 review, 134 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 9 months
apicrud-apidevelopingexpressjsgeneric-service
AckeeCZ/styleguide-backend-config
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 64 commits in 2 years 8 months
backend
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