Matěj Polák
Frontend Engineering Manager at STRV
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatěj Polák is a Frontend Engineering Manager at STRV with eight years of experience building high-performance video streaming products and leading teams for Silicon Valley startups. He previously led the player product and a team of five engineers at 24i, shaping tech strategy, product architecture, and cross-team technical direction. Matěj’s hands-on background spans Smart TV and console app development across many platforms (Samsung, LG, PS4, Xbox) and building React/React Native frameworks for next-generation players. Based in Brno, he blends engineering leadership with deep frontend craftsmanship, often tackling platform-specific constraints that are invisible to typical web-first teams. His trajectory shows a mix of product ownership and platform-level thinking, making him adept at scaling both teams and complex media clients.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Full-stack Web Development, Autumn - 2017, Certificate, Full-stack Web Development, Autumn - 2017 at Data4You z.s.
English, Czech, German
Github Skills (70)
drm10
webos10
playback10
video-streaming10
vod10
samsung10
mse10
video-player10
react-native10
lg10
player10
react10
javascript9
android-wear9
react-universal9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
matejpolak/wishy
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
matejpolak/javabeans
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:19 pushes in 2 days
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