Jiří Uhlíř
Principal Software Engineer at Y Soft
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJiří Uhlíř is a Principal Software Engineer based in Brno with eight years of professional experience building robust back-end systems, primarily in Java SE/EE and Kotlin. He has progressed from OpenVMS administration to leading core services for observability and SaaS platforms, blending deep OS-level knowledge (OpenVMS, RHEL, AIX) with cloud-native tech like Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC and Kafka. Jiří pairs strong database skills and query optimization experience with a passion for regular expressions and developer tooling, earned during roles that included migration, automation and CI/CD ownership. As a technical lead and mentor at SolarWinds MSP he drove product quality, API test automation and agile practices, and at SolarWinds contributed to alerting for observability. He teaches formal languages and enterprise Java part-time, reflecting an appetite for rigorous theory as well as pragmatic production engineering. Colleagues know him for thoughtful architecture decisions that bridge legacy enterprise systems and modern microservices.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mgr., Aplikovaná informatika, Mgr., Aplikovaná informatika at Masarykova univerzita Brno, Fakulta informatiky
Czech, English, German, French, Russian
Github Skills (20)
cdr10
ipmi10
junit3
code-testing3
compiler-plugin3
scala3
java3
junit-rule2
testing2
static-analysis2
unit-testing2
scala-compiler2
code-analysis2
lang2
python1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
uhla/fler-downloader
Nov 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
uhla/pa165-lectures
Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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