Summary
Jiří Chadima is a pragmatic software engineer and people-focused technical leader with 14 years of experience building full-stack web systems across JavaScript, Python, Java and PHP. He has moved between hands-on engineering and management roles—scaling teams and organizations at Pure Storage while still shipping frontend and backend improvements, incident response, and performance work as an individual contributor. Comfortable with rapid learning and pragmatic trade-offs, Jiří favors solutions that are useful, usable and “good enough” to deliver value quickly. His background spans startups and enterprise contexts—from Ethereum and AWS projects at Fragaria to database-focused systems at J&T BANKA—giving him a broad operational perspective. Based in Prague, he blends engineering craft with coaching and hiring experience, having managed 20+ directs and shaped 50+ person orgs at peak. He’s known for practical problem solving and for turning multi-year program ideas into concrete proofs-of-concept and delivery plans.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ing., Web and Software Engineering, Ing., Web and Software Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague
Gymnázium Karla Sladkovského
Czech, English