Jiří Holuša
Senior Director Of Product Management at Azul
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
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Top SchoolJiří Holuša is a highly technical product leader with 12 years of hands-on experience in distributed systems, performance testing, and storage engines, currently leading the Azul Prime product line as Senior Director of Product Management. He progressed from quality engineering and performance tooling into product leadership, notably shaping Hazelcast Platform and embedding product management inside engineering teams to drive ownership and outcomes. Jiří combines deep engineering chops (Java, performance frameworks, cloud and Kubernetes stacks) with a pragmatic product mindset—turning high-level vision into roadmaps, GTM strategies, and measurable customer impact. A devoted open-source practitioner and former project lead of PerfRepo, he has driven community growth and tooling adoption across teams. He teaches and speaks publicly, enjoys digging into tricky technical details, and brings a blunt Czech sense of humor tempered by relentless follow-through.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Informatics, 2, Master's degree, Applied Informatics, 2 at Masarykova univerzita Brno
Czech, English, German
Github Skills (200)
jenkins-api-plugin10
testing10
stress-testing10
bigtable10
distributed-computing10
python-client10
jenkins-plugin10
elasticsearch10
datagrid10
stream-processing10
clustering10
computation10
nosql10
artifactory10
big-data10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Holmistr/hazelcast
Oct 2017 - Apr 2022
Open Source In-Memory Data Grid
Contributions:27 PRs, 57 pushes, 90 branches in 4 years 7 months
data-gridmemorydatagridin-memorygrid
Holmistr/infinispan
Jan 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:17 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 4 months
data-sourcedata-gridscalablenosqljavascript
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