Summary
Pavel Heimlich is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with nearly two decades of platform and infrastructure experience at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, specializing in developer platforms, release automation, and security/compliance tooling. He excels at debugging complex, non-obvious system failures and turning opaque multi-repository systems into reproducible, maintainable workflows using Linux, Python, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm, and GitLab CI/CD. At Oracle he led the adoption of a virtualized developer environment that cut hardware wait times from weeks to minutes and reduced build failures by about two-thirds, demonstrating a practical focus on developer productivity. His background spans security testing and vulnerability response, Solaris internationalization, and localization QA, giving him a rare mix of low-level OS, compliance, and developer-experience expertise. He is a hands-on mentor who pragmatically leverages AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate investigation and delivery while emphasizing operability and correctness. Based in Třebíč, Czechia, Pavel combines deep institutional knowledge with a talent for making fragile systems understandable and fixable.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Zakladni skola TGM Trebic
Ing, Ing at Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze
English, French, Spanish, German, Czech