Karel Rank
Software Engineer at Snowflake
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorKarel Rank is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building and scaling high-performance systems across finance, telecom, e‑commerce, and cloud platforms. He has held senior engineering and staff roles at Snowflake, Stripe, and Amazon/AWS, bringing deep expertise in distributed systems, big data storage, and low-latency trading and billing systems. His background spans hands-on C/C++ and Java development, architecture and team leadership, and modern practices such as CI/CD, code review, and test-driven development. Karel has led R&D teams, implemented SCRUM at product scale, and driven migrations from legacy VCS to Git with Gerrit-based reviews. Based in Seattle, he combines enterprise-grade rigor with a history of shipping mission-critical systems for hundreds of global customers. An uncommon strength is his cross-domain fluency—moving from telecom call-recording and HFT platforms to cloud-native AI data infrastructure—allowing him to translate complex requirements into reliable production software.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Czech, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (53)
authentication10
java10
security10
aurora10
alternate10
spring-boot10
oauth10
database-deployment9
database-migrations9
migration9
spring9
redgate9
binaries9
spring-security9
flyway9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
karl82/pascal-interpreter
Nov 2012 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 4 years 1 month
karl82/m-index
Feb 2011 - May 2017
Contributions:225 commits, 2 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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