Summary
Marek Příhoda is a Senior Software Engineer based in Prague with 14 years of experience building scalable web and data systems across Python, Ruby, and AWS. He specializes in optimizing big-data pipelines using tools like Apache Spark, Airflow, EMR, Redshift and Glue, and has applied that expertise at companies including Medallia and several high-growth web shops. Comfortable both as an individual freelancer and as a senior contributor in product teams, he blends backend data engineering with hands-on web development and frontend experience from earlier roles. Experienced working remotely across the EU, he excels at turning messy data problems into maintainable, cost-efficient pipelines. An economist by training, he brings a pragmatic, business-minded approach to technical architecture and performance trade-offs.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Inženýr (Ing.), International Business, Inženýr (Ing.), International Business at Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze
University of Limerick