Summary
Martin Svoboda is a software engineering contractor with 11 years of pragmatic experience building and migrating web backends, frontends and APIs, specialising in Ruby and Rails while also shipping TypeScript/React and Node.js services. He has led teams as a tech lead at Checkatrade, steering migrations from legacy .NET and Solr into modern microservices and monorepos on GCP, and has hands-on experience upgrading Rails/Ruby versions and moving environments from Heroku to GCP. Comfortable across the stack, Martin also implements CI/CD and cloud deployments (GCP/AWS/Heroku) and has repeatedly turned messy legacy systems into maintainable platforms. Quick to learn new technologies, he combines mentoring and coding—often pairing architecture decisions with day-to-day feature delivery. Based in London, he’s currently contracting and actively seeking Ruby-focused roles, bringing a rare blend of migration expertise and practical DevOps experience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Information Technology, High School Information Technology at Educanet
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague
Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at Unicorn College
English, Czech, Tagalog