Summary
Jiří Šimeček is a technical lead with 11 years in software engineering and 8+ years building and scaling teams, currently shaping retail sports betting technology across 20+ engineers in Prague, Zagreb, and Split. He progressed from hands-on engineering to setting technical strategy, driving migrations from PHP to Node.js and Go to improve performance and maintainability. Jiří excels at modernizing legacy systems and unifying platform teams into product-oriented domains, delivering high-adoption projects like self-service terminals while keeping customer service and support workflows tightly aligned. He combines pragmatic engineering decisions with people development—implementing IDPs and mentoring engineers—to turn technical challenges into measurable business outcomes. Based in Prague with a background in web and software engineering from Czech Technical University, he’s as comfortable in DevOps and full-stack delivery for diverse client projects as he is steering cross-office technical alignment.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Information Technology, High School, Information Technology at Střední průmyslová škola UL Resslova
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Web and Software Engineering, A, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Web and Software Engineering, A at Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague
Czech, English