Lukas Hlavacka
Staff Software Developer at Wealthsimple
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLukas Hlavacka is a Staff Software Developer with 12 years of experience building and leading high-performing, distributed engineering teams across fintech and e‑commerce. He blends hands-on full‑stack expertise—Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/React, Java, Python, C#/.NET, GraphQL and Elasticsearch—with pragmatic product thinking to deliver scalable, business-focused features. At Shopify he led cross-functional efforts for B2B accounts and product management, and now drives platform and product work at Wealthsimple. Known for mentoring, hiring and improving engineering practices, he balances velocity with sustainable technical foundations and measurable impact. Trained in economic informatics and university teaching, he brings both analytical rigor and a knack for clear technical coaching to complex projects.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Economic Informatics, Master's degree Economic Informatics at University of Economics in BratislavaUniversity Teaching Certificate Fundamentals of Teaching in Higher Education, University Teaching Certificate Fundamentals of Teaching in Higher Education at University of Windsor
English, Slovak, German
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Github Skills (36)
range-slider10
react-component10
slider-component10
shopify9
design-tokens9
react-native-component9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
component-library9
cjs9
figma-plugin9
react9
react-modal9
activesupport8
shopify-api8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lukashlavacka/fsharp-game-of-life
Aug 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
lukashlavacka/ReactJS-LightroomCatalog-Viewer
Feb 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:114 commits, 74 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
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