Karel Hájek
Engineering Manager at Tricentis
Liberec, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolKarel Hájek is an engineering manager and technical lead with over 15 years of hands-on software experience and a decade in leadership roles, currently directing two full-stack teams at Tricentis on Identity Platform and Data Lake initiatives. He has a strong track record of building bespoke platforms across finance, FMCG, and online retail—from meter-data acquisition systems and credit-risk platforms to fraud-detection and client-facing web services. Comfortable balancing delivery and architecture, he’s led cross-functional teams of senior engineers and improved shared services and reporting integrations to boost product reuse and operational efficiency. Karel pairs a formal Applied Informatics master’s background with practical enterprise experience at firms like Absa, Barclays, and Landis+Gyr, bringing both domain depth and platform thinking. Notably, he moves fluidly between strategic engineering management and detailed platform work, often focusing on shared components that scale across products. Based in Liberec, Czechia, he emphasizes collaboration and pragmatic solutions that reduce duplicated effort across organizations.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
master, Applied Informatics, master, Applied Informatics at Masarykova univerzitaStřední průmyslová škola strojní a elektrotechnická, LiberecGymnázium F. X. Šaldy
English
Github Skills (36)
kotlin10
strict10
corda10
interoperability9
contract9
blockchain9
pdf-generation9
dlt9
mono8
privacy8
distributed-ledger8
pdf8
rendering8
csharp7
winforms7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
polybioz/HTML-Renderer-Core
Mar 2020 - Jan 2025
Port of the HTML-Renderer library to .NET Core 2.1
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 2 PRs in 4 years 10 months
dotnetmetropdfwindowsmultipurpose
polybioz/github-bounty
Jun 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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