Summary
Michal Vanek is an engineering enablement manager and quality-focused leader with 11+ years driving test automation, CI/CD and release management across large, distributed teams. He has a strong hands-on background in Python-based automation, virtualization and tooling (Jenkins, TeamCity, Selenium) and a track record of building QA infrastructure and onboarding strategies from scratch during major corporate merges. Comfortable in matrixed environments, he combines people management with technical proof-of-concept work and ROI-driven decisions to measure product and development quality. A frequent conference speaker and former Avast QA lead, he excels at delivering quality at speed and prefers automating repetitive work rather than patching processes manually. Less obvious: he pairs deep low-level testing experience (C/C++, PL/SQL era) with modern front-end interests visible on GitHub (TypeScript/React), making him effective at bridging legacy systems and contemporary stacks.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
GUH
Msc, Computer science, Msc, Computer science at Czech Technical University in Prague