Marek Kádek
VP Of Technology at Chili Piper
Slovakia
Summary
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Top SchoolMarek Kádek is a technology leader with 11 years of hands-on software engineering experience, currently serving as VP of Technology at Chili Piper after progressing through roles from software engineer to director. He specializes in Scala, functional and reactive programming, and cloud-native infrastructure, with a track record of leading backend teams and shipping scalable systems remotely. Marek has contributed to the Akka.NET project, improving core actor-model code and multi-node testing—an indication of his deep experience with distributed systems and concurrency. Based in Slovakia, he blends practical engineering (from early Android and web work to enterprise contracts at Cisco) with strategic leadership in search, personalization, and backend architecture. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic refactorer who prefers clarity and robustness over cleverness, translating complex requirements into maintainable production systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Applied Informatics, Bachelor's degree Applied Informatics at Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
Slovak, English, Czech
Github Skills (11)
akka10
csharp10
distributed-programming10
actor-model10
concurrency10
testing9
asp-net9
dotnet9
net9
cluster-computing8
clustering8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
akkadotnet/akka.net
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Canonical actor model implementation for .NET with local + distributed actors in C# and F#.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 15 PRs, 37 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Marek primarily contributed to the improvement of the Akka.NET core, focusing on refactoring and bug fixes. Their commits involved removing guards and obsolete checks to improve code clarity and efficiency. The contributions also included fixing issues in the multi-node test runner and adding new remote round robin and random specs for testing.
dotnetconcurrencydistributed-actorsdistributed-programmingc-sharp
KadekM/play-slick-silhouette-auth-api
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:56 commits, 5 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 month
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