Pavel Pokorný
Technical Owner at Splunk
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Pokorný is a seasoned technical owner and software engineer with 14 years of experience building full-stack and backend systems across startups and large enterprises. Currently holding leadership roles at Splunk and Cisco while maintaining hands-on backend and DevOps responsibilities at Smartlook, he blends strategic ownership with day-to-day engineering. His background spans Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java, cloud deployments and diagnostic systems, and he has shipped both frontend UX improvements (sticky navigation, panel refactors) and core backend tooling. An active open-source contributor, Pavel originated the apipie-rails API documentation tool and improved Katello’s UI and lifecycle management features. He pairs academic training in computer science and bioinformatics with pragmatic CI/CD and deployment experience, often stepping in to resolve thorny integration or UI bugs himself. Colocated in Brno, he’s known for turning complex domain requirements into robust, developer-friendly tools.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bc., Computer Science, Bc., Computer Science at Brno University of Technology
English, Czech
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
rails10
api10
front-end-development10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
ruby-on-rails10
documentation10
theforeman9
content-management-system8
content-management8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Apipie/apipie-rails
Nov 2011 - Feb 2016
Ruby on Rails API documentation tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:153 commits, 28 PRs, 32 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pavel appears to have been primarily involved in the development of a Ruby on Rails API documentation tool. Their contributions centered on the initial implementation and enhancement of the front-end, including the creation of the first usable version. The code changes also include the implementation of a hash parameters validator. The user has been involved in core documentation tool enhancements.
ruby-on-railsapiruby-on-rails-apirails-apirails
Katello/katello
Jul 2012 - Sep 2012
Katello integrates open source systems management tools into a single solution for controlling the lifecycle of your machines.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:174 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily worked on the frontend, specifically in the `public/javascripts/panel.js` file, implementing sticky navigation. They addressed bugs related to the web UI, resolving errors encountered when creating new environments and importing manifests. The user also contributed to refactoring the panel and added features like extracting panel pages, improving the user experience, and enhancing the functionality of the application.
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