Pavel Zak
CloudOps Director at Ataccama
Prague Metropolitan Area Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Zak is a CloudOps Director and engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling cloud platforms, SaaS delivery and support organizations from tens to hundreds of people. He combines hands-on automation and release engineering skills with people-first leadership—maintaining <5% attrition while boosting roadmap predictability above 80% and saving hundreds of thousands USD in infra costs. His background spans Technical Support, SRE, Platform and Cloud Engineering, where he consistently improves uptime, security, observability and developer experience across global teams. Pavel is pragmatic about process and tooling, driven by AI-informed engineering leadership and cost optimization, and has a knack for turning support insights into sustainable platform improvements. An early automation contributor on projects like packaging the Pencil prototyping app, he still enjoys balancing work with both computers and humans—what he jokingly calls being a “Superstack” developer. Based in Prague, he thrives in remote-first, fast-growth environments helping teams solve problems one by one.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development | Deployment | Integration | Operation | Support
Czech, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
bash10
ubuntu10
debian-packaging10
build-automation10
scripting9
shell9
script9
sh9
virtual-hosts6
mongodb6
docker6
jquery6
docker-compose6
javascript6
apache6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
prikhi/pencil
Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
DEPRECATED: Multiplatform GUI Prototyping/Wireframing
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Pavel's contributions primarily focus on automating the build process for the Pencil application and packaging it for Debian-based Linux distributions. This involves modifying build scripts, integrating changelog updates, and configuring metadata for Debian packages. They optimized the build process by including changelog updates, removing redundant license files, and compressing files within the package. The user also addressed warnings in the packaging process.
utmprototypingeaglewireframinggui
practical-ansible/nginx-django
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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