Summary
Jiri Koutny is a hands-on SaaS operator and tech leader with 13+ years building and buying web businesses, from founding and exiting Collabim—the leading SEO tool in Czechia and Slovakia—to leading SaaS acquisitions at 6Firms. He blends product, sales and engineering expertise, having run small engineering teams, built large-scale data platforms on Databricks and led development of an AI-powered SAP BW migration tool used by clients like LEGO, Swarovski and Bosch. Comfortable across the stack (Symfony/PHP, Node.js, Spark, Databricks, cloud), he excels at automating hard operational problems—such as crawling millions of search results daily or translating ABAP with GenAI. Jiri has repeatedly moved between startup and enterprise contexts, turning technical projects into commercial outcomes and reinvesting gains to scale M&A playbooks. Based in Prague, he combines founder grit with enterprise delivery experience and a rare knack for turning migration pain points into differentiated tools.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Prague University of Economics and Business
Gymnázium Třeboň
Czech, English