Summary
Josef Šamánek is a Staff Data Engineer with a decade of experience building and leading data platforms, currently driving data initiatives at SentinelOne from Brno. He progressed through multiple senior and leadership roles at Kiwi.com, where he designed data warehouses for finance and external partners, led BI teams, and solved challenges around historization, performance, and real-time reporting. Josef combines hands-on ETL and streaming expertise (Airflow, BigQuery, Redis, Kubernetes) with practical ML-driven alerting and data-quality practices, rooted in a Computer Science background focused on AI and NLP. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, he has a track record of making complex analytics systems extensible and maintainable while adopting agile practices across teams. An early entrepreneur and former professional poker player, he brings a data-driven, strategic mindset and strong risk/decision instincts to engineering leadership.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science (course: Artifical Intelligence, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing), Bachelor's degree, Computer Science (course: Artifical Intelligence, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing) at Masaryk University Brno
High School, High School at Gymnazium Matyase Lercha, Brno
English, Czech, German, Spanish