Summary
Josef Starýchfojtů is a product and engineering executive with nine years of hands-on and leadership experience, currently serving as Chief Product and Technology Officer at Mews where he oversees 500+ people and a portfolio of 10+ B2B, Fintech and B2B2C products. He progressed through technical and managerial roles at Mews—from software engineer and platform tech lead to CTO—driving a shift from tech-heavy platform thinking to customer- and product-first delivery while building scalable Azure infrastructure, security, and developer experience practices. Josef blends deep backend architecture and .NET experience with practical product ownership, having led cross-functional platform teams focused on reliability, compliance and developer productivity. He has also taught algorithms and introductory programming at Charles University, reflecting a commitment to mentoring and technical education alongside rapid scaling challenges. Based in Central Bohemia, Czechia, he pairs pragmatic engineering discipline with product vision to reimagine hospitality technology at scale.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Math, Math at Gymnázium Christiana Dopplera
Unfinished Master (Mgr.), Computer Software Engineering, Unfinished Master (Mgr.), Computer Software Engineering at Univerzita Karlova
Bachelor (Bc.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor (Bc.), Computer Software Engineering at Univerzita Karlova v Praze
Czech, English, German