Ondřej Smola is a platform-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and operating managed services. Currently Platform Team Lead at Altinity, he previously led SRE and speech-recognition platform efforts, architecting Altinity.Cloud Anywhere to run ClickHouse clusters across SaaS, BYOC and BYOK models. He teaches cloud computing and Go at the Technical University of Liberec, blending academic research—his PhD work on fault-tolerant, scalable speech recognition—with hands-on production engineering. Comfortable with Kubernetes, cost-efficient schedulers and hybrid cloud operations, Ondřej combines practical ops experience with an academic lens that surfaces robust, measurable system design choices.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechatronics - IT, Bachelor's degree, Mechatronics - IT at Technical University of Liberec
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Grammar school in Frýdlant
Technical cybernetics, Technical cybernetics at Technical University of Liberec, Faculty of Mechatronics, Informatics and Interdisciplinary Studies
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