Jiri Barton
Staff Engineer at Pantheon Platform
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolJiri Barton is a Staff Engineer based in Prague with 15 years of experience building and operating resilient web and payment systems, specializing in Python/Django, GraphQL/REST APIs, and cloud-native SRE practices. He leads technical efforts end-to-end—from designing backend services and batch processing to deploying and monitoring them with tooling like Prometheus, Sentry, PagerDuty and Google Cloud—most recently driving billing and entitlement services that reduced customer churn. His background spans hands-on Linux administration to platform reliability, giving him a rare blend of deep operational instincts and backend architecture skills. An active contributor to django-constance, he has improved settings management and Redis integration for a widely used Django project, reflecting a commitment to practical open-source improvements. Trained in computer science with a master’s focus on neural networks and graphics, he brings analytical rigor to performance tuning and system design.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, Neural Networks (AI), Computer Graphics, Master's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, Neural Networks (AI), Computer Graphics at Charles University
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Github Skills (6)
python10
redis10
django10
testing8
py8
database-management5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-constance
Aug 2010 - Jun 2012
Dynamic Django settings.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jiri primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Django-Constance project, focusing on setting up and modifying settings management. Their work involved modifying the codebase to support pickle for serialization, updating the default attribute access, and integrating Redis as a backend. They also added and updated test cases, and created example projects. The user's contributions were essential in establishing the project's usability.
django-settings
whiskybar/telemail
Feb 2015 - Mar 2020
A simple interface to managing email for a hosting.
Contributions:4 pushes in 5 years 2 months
hostingwebmailhtml-emailskypeemail
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