Summary
Josef Lapka is a product and technology leader with 20+ years of experience translating engineering craft into scaled B2B, B2C and B2B2C SaaS businesses, currently serving as CPTO at CloudTalk and advising fintech at JLP. He has repeatedly built and empowered product organizations—from founding small teams to growing Mews’ product capability from 3 to 20 tribes—driving measurable gains in market share, profitability and operational resilience. Equally comfortable in the codebase and the boardroom, Josef’s background as a full‑stack .NET developer and early-career technical lead informs his pragmatic, engineering-first approach to product strategy. With extensive cross-regional hospitality and distribution domain experience, he excels at aligning product vision to commercial outcomes while nurturing trust, independence and ambition in teams. An understated strength is his blend of hands-on delivery and disciplined empowerment, which consistently converts ambitious ideas into reliable revenue-generating products.
7 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Digital Media IT, Masters Digital Media IT at University of Portsmouth
German, Czech, English