Pavel Polívka
Develoment Team Leader at Barclays Investment Bank
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolPavel Polívka is a pragmatic software leader with 11 years of experience building and shipping full-stack Java applications, now leading a development team at Barclays Investment Bank in Prague. He blends hands-on engineering with people-first leadership—mentoring, unblocking, and restoring developers’ joy in craftsmanship as much as driving delivery. His background spans enterprise banking and long-form Java development at IDC, giving him deep familiarity with robust, maintainable systems and real-world debugging. Pavel writes about simplicity and productivity, and off-hours he’s a music-loving writer who jokes about being “BATMAN,” a small clue to his energetic, creative approach to solving problems.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnázium MimoňInženýr, Informační technologie, Inženýr, Informační technologie at Technická univerzita v Liberci
English
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Github Skills (40)
jetbrains-ides10
authentication10
identity-provider10
gitlab10
aws10
authorization10
spring-boot10
ldap-authentication10
fido9
java9
single-sign-on9
sso-authentication9
spring-cloud9
react8
akita8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PavlikPolivka/GitLabProjects
Oct 2015 - Jun 2020
Simple plugin that is adding support for GitLab specific actions to JetBrain IDEs
Contributions:151 commits, 12 PRs, 112 pushes in 4 years 9 months
gitlab
PavlikPolivka/gitcleaner
Sep 2017 - Dec 2020
Simple plugin for removing old git branches for JetBrains IDEs.
Contributions:1 review, 16 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 3 months
jetbrains-ides
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