Michal Kočárek
Principal Software Engineer at Prague Pride
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichal Kočárek is a Principal Software Engineer based in Prague with 15 years of hands-on experience building and scaling full-stack web platforms. He currently leads cross-functional teams on a genomic analytics platform at DNAnexus, shaping engineering processes, culture, and developer experience. Michal has a track record of simplifying complex codebases and improving development scalability through continuous refactoring and pragmatic architecture decisions. Previously he combined technical leadership and product delivery as a hands-on lead at MSD and even stepped in as interim CEO of a startup, bringing operational and people-management experience to engineering roles. He regularly mentors engineers in software craftsmanship and agile practices and also applies his organizational skills outside tech as a production manager for Prague Pride. His blend of deep technical craft, leadership in both startup and enterprise contexts, and commitment to developer productivity makes him effective at turning technical debt into predictable delivery.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
HS Diploma, General Education, Mathematics & Physics, HS Diploma, General Education, Mathematics & Physics at Gymnázium Christiana Dopplera, Praha 5 – Zborovská 45MSc, Information Systems and Technology, MSc, Information Systems and Technology at Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze
Czech, German, English, Slovak
Github Skills (104)
python10
testing10
interpreter10
javascript10
lambda10
developer-tools10
continuous-integration10
aws-lambda10
typescript10
serverless-framework10
localstack10
facebook10
php10
aws10
type-check9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
michal-kocarek/birdimport
May 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:43 commits in 6 months
bileto/docker-teamcity-agent-php-microservice
Jan 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:9 PRs, 29 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 10 months
docker-imageagentteamcitydockermicroservices
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