Pavel Dohnal
Engineering Team Lead at Automattic
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Dohnal is an engineering team lead with nine years of professional experience building full-stack web products and guiding distributed teams, currently leading a MailPoet team at Automattic. He combines deep hands-on skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and React with backend experience in PHP, Symfony, Node.js and extensive AWS usage, having shipped WordPress plugin features and cloud-native services. His background spans startups and scale-ups—Momentum, Brightpearl and Tripomatic—where he also influenced architectural and technology decisions. Pavel holds a Master's in Information Technology from Masaryk University, and his career path shows a strong mix of legacy-to-modern migrations and practical infrastructure work that often blurs the line between dev and ops. Colleagues rely on him for delivering on-time, budget-conscious results while continuously adopting new tools and patterns.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Masaryk University BrnoEconomics, High School, Economics, High School at Business Academy
English, Czech
Github Skills (80)
woocommerce10
wordpress10
shopping-cart10
ecommerce10
newsletter10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
commerce10
gutenberg9
debug9
envelope9
bdd8
static-analysis8
testing8
static-analyzer8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mailpoet/mailpoet
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
A free newsletter plugin for WordPress
Contributions:39 releases, 567 reviews, 2702 commits in 5 years 8 months
newsletterswordpressemailswordpress-pluginnewsletter
mailpoet/wordpress-images
Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
Docker images to help facilitate testing of WordPress plugins
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 10 months
wordpress-pluginswordpresstestingdockerdocker-images
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