Pavel Jurasek
Founder & CTO at Investfriend
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolPavel Jurasek is a founder and CTO with 13+ years building web applications and leading engineering teams across startups and agencies, now based in Berlin. He combines deep full-stack expertise—PHP, Ruby/Rails, Node.js, modern front-end tooling and multiple databases—with hands-on product work for finance-focused ventures like HypoFriend, Pensionfriend and Investfriend. His background spans top Czech agencies and enterprise clients (Vodafone, P&G, Air Bank), where he delivered bespoke platforms and managed infrastructure from server provisioning to deployment. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and a technical leader, he has led backend engineering at COUP and product incubation at BCG Digital Ventures. Notably, he applies agency-style rapid delivery to financial products, aiming to simplify complex decision flows like mortgages and pensions through data-driven tooling. His career blends long-term consultancy with serial founding, giving him a pragmatic, user-centered approach to engineering and product strategy.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Graphic Systems, Engineering, Graphic Systems at Smíchovská Secondary School
English, Czech
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Github Skills (200)
payment-gateway10
recaptcha10
presenter10
facebook-php-sdk10
nette10
api10
payment10
component-based10
oop10
ajax10
inline10
error-handling10
credit10
profiler10
debug10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JedenWeb/brief
Mar 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 releases, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
php-libraryphp
JedenWeb/auditable
Jul 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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