Ladislav Macoun
Staff Software Engineer at Rapid7
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolLadislav Macoun is a pragmatic Staff Software Engineer based in Prague with 9 years of experience specializing in systems and data engineering, primarily using Go. He has driven platform-level initiatives at Rapid7, including OpenTelemetry adoption for observability, FedRAMP-compliant infrastructure work, and leading large-scale product integrations. Previously he built next-generation logging pipelines (Kafka/Elasticsearch/ClickHouse) and operated metrics at CDN77 while contributing to CDN core components in NGINX, Lua, DNS, and C++. Known for mentoring and formalizing onboarding and hiring processes, he combines hands-on implementation with cross-team coordination and incident leadership. Colleagues rely on him for practical, security-conscious solutions that scale in production environments.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Informační technologie, Informační technologie at Czech Technical University in Prague
Github Skills (93)
docker-run10
testing10
automation10
cpp10
api10
golang10
high-performance10
kafka-consumer10
kafka10
producer10
apache-kafka10
docker10
kafka-producer10
librdkafka10
sasl10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cdn77/librdkafka
Feb 2022 - Aug 2023
The Apache Kafka C/C++ library
Contributions:28 pushes in 1 year 6 months
apache-kafkacppc-libraryapachekafka
ladislavmacoun/elasticlient
Jun 2021 - Mar 2023
C++ Elasticsearch client library
Contributions:21 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 8 months
client-libraryelasticsearch-clientcppelasticsearch
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