Ondrej Pokorny
Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolOndrej Pokorny is a product-minded Lead Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience translating business strategy into cloud-native, cost-efficient platform architectures across fintech, loyalty, and tolling. He leads cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions, driving platform modernization that achieved meaningful operational wins such as ~40% cloud cost reduction and 50%+ latency improvements. Hands-on in Go and .NET, Ondrej architects event-driven distributed systems on AWS and Azure, leveraging Kafka, Terraform, and containerized CI/CD pipelines. He bridges Engineering, Product, and Business to prioritize technical investments that deliver measurable customer value, while maintaining a keen interest in low-level programming and reverse engineering. Outside of work he applies his engineering rigor to drones and aviation—he’s a licensed UAV operator and ultralight pilot who built a competitive custom racing drone.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Graduation Exam, Electrical computers, Graduation Exam, Electrical computers at SPSE Frantiska KrizikaKybernetics and Robotics, Kybernetics and Robotics at Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
English, German
Github Skills (21)
pascal9
functional-programming7
scala7
chess7
treeview7
mongodb7
nodejs6
typescript6
fpc6
svn6
lichess5
forum5
blink5
lists4
perl4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ondrejpokorny/VirtualTreeView-Lazarus
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
Virtual Treeview is a treeview control
Contributions:8 pushes in 10 months
treeviewtreeview-control
selectline-software/selectline-api
Oct 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 comments, 3 issues in 3 years 6 months
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