Summary
Ondrej Sika is a pragmatic software, DevOps and SRE leader with 12 years of hands-on experience delivering resilient infrastructure, consultancy and training from Prague. As CEO of SikaLabs and a long-running independent DevOps architect, he blends executive leadership with daily technical practice—designing systems, teaching teams, and consulting on cloud-native operations. His background includes engineering work at Braiins/Slush Pool, giving him deep familiarity with high-availability, throughput-sensitive systems. Comfortable negotiating paid engagements ($1k+ MD rate), he pairs commercial acumen with a lecturer’s knack for translating complex operations into actionable learning. Known for juggling architecture, tooling and mentoring, he often turns operational pain points into repeatable training and automation.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer