Jiří Appl
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJiří Appl is a Principal Software Engineer based in Redmond, Washington, with nine years of professional experience and a long tenure at Microsoft that began with two SDE internships and continued into a senior engineering role. He combines deep product engineering knowledge with institutional experience navigating large-scale Microsoft projects, bringing continuity and technical leadership since 2011. Trained in Informatics at Masaryk University, Jiří pairs strong academic foundations with practical early-career work at Pevnina CZ, giving him both applied and theoretical perspectives. Known for staying with complex platforms over many years, he excels at driving long-lived, maintainable solutions and mentoring cross-functional teams. Colleagues would describe him as steady, detail-oriented, and skilled at turning ambiguous requirements into reliable software. He brings an underappreciated strength in institutional knowledge—knowing how large organizations evolve systems over time—and uses that to accelerate delivery and reduce technical debt.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mgr Informatics, Mgr Informatics at Masaryk University BrnoUniversity College Dublin
Github Skills (147)
confidential-computing10
sgx10
windows10
microsoft-azure10
tee10
vms10
cpp10
cdr10
linux10
dotnet10
containerd10
sdk10
golang10
azure10
opc10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/NanoServerTools
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
Samples and Tools for Nano Server
Contributions:2 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
nanoserver
jiria/moc
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
Microsoft On-Premise Cloud
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 8 months
gcpcloudmicrosoftazureon-premise
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