Michal Bližňák
Senior Software Design Engineer Cloud Architect at Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic
Zlín, Central Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolMichal Bližňák is a Senior Software Design Engineer and Cloud Architect with 16+ years of experience designing cloud and distributed systems, cross-platform applications, and heterogeneous parallel software (CUDA) for embedded and IoT domains. He combines academic rigor—as a Ph.D. in Technical Cybernetics and researcher/lecturer at Tomas Bata University—with hands-on engineering at Schneider Electric, where he serves as an Edison Technical Expert driving cloud architecture and development. A prolific open-source contributor and longtime back-end developer on projects like the CodeLite IDE, he has improved portability and offline ERD support across SQL dialects, reducing build-time coupling to database backends. Michal’s work spans automated code generation from formal specifications, SMP parallelization, and toolchain/IDE improvements, reflecting a rare mix of low-level systems craftsmanship and cloud-native design. Based in Zlín, Czechia, he often bridges research and commercial product delivery, bringing practical innovations from lab prototypes into production.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bc., Automation and Informatics, Bc., Automation and Informatics at University of Technology Brno, Faculty of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Technical cybernetics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Technical cybernetics at Tomas Bata University in ZlinN/A, Embedded systems, N/A, Embedded systems at SPŠE Brno
French, Czech, English, Russian
Github Skills (9)
wxwidgets10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
cross-platform9
database-design8
cmake7
linux6
macos5
windows5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
eranif/codelite
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
A multi purpose IDE specialized in C/C++/Rust/Python/PHP and Node.js. Written in C++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michal primarily improved the DBExplorer ERDs functionality within the C++ codebase. Their changes allowed for offline usage of ERDs across different SQL dialects, removing the need for building the CodeLite IDE against each database backend. Further commits involved fixing layout issues in the ERD panel and integrating the latest version of wxShapeFramework. Further modifications included fixing build processes and updating images.
cpppythonwindowsrustnode-js
MichalBliznak/CodeDesigner
May 2010 - May 2016
Contributions:370 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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