Summary
Marek Dostál is an engineering team lead and SRE-focused backend engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable, high-performance payment and logistics systems from Prague. He currently leads a senior backend team at Skip Pay, driving reliability, observability, and developer experience across Python services on AWS and Terraform. Marek has a track record of shipping critical payment features (virtual cards, installment systems) and optimizing systems for high throughput using Celery, PostgreSQL and datadog-driven monitoring. He pairs hands-on engineering with product partnership to reduce incidents and streamline releases, and is exploring AI-assisted tooling for smarter alerting and faster debugging. Earlier roles span real-time bidding, ETL and warehouse optimization, showing consistent focus on measurable business impact and performance at scale. Outside work he has led the national ultimate frisbee association through crisis and rebrand, demonstrating operational leadership beyond engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ekonomické lyceum, Ekonomické lyceum at Obchodní akademie Vinohradská
Inženýr (Ing.), Informatika - Webové a softwarové inženýrství, Inženýr (Ing.), Informatika - Webové a softwarové inženýrství at FIT ČVUT v Praze
German, English