Petr Hejl
Principal Engineer at Phrase
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolPetr Hejl is a Principal Engineer based in Prague with over two decades of hands-on Java experience and a strong track record in IDE and backend platform development. He built the NetBeans execution API and contributed Docker and JavaScript integration to the IDE, demonstrating deep expertise in API design, multithreading, and tooling. At Phrase and Memsource he progressed from senior developer to backend manager and team lead, shaping translation memory and termbase systems while bridging hands-on coding and technical leadership. His background spans JVM internals, Java EE server integrations, databases (PL/SQL, Oracle) and modern workflows with Git, Gradle and Docker. A pragmatic team player and quick learner, he combines low-level Java knowledge with product-facing engineering to deliver robust developer and enterprise tooling.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master (Ing.), Computer science, Master (Ing.), Computer science at Czech Technical University in PragueISŠ Nová PakaGymnázium Turnov
English
Github Skills (141)
extensible10
monitoring10
spring-native10
http-request10
code-editor10
logbook10
server-side10
spring-boot-starter10
java10
netbeans10
gnome10
aot10
spring-boot10
request-response10
spring10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
phejl/addons-source
Aug 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 17 branches in 9 months
grampspartyplugin3rd-party
phejl/spring-native
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Spring Native provides beta support for compiling Spring applications to native executables using GraalVM native-image compiler.
Contributions:28 pushes, 11 branches in 7 months
spring-bootexecutablesspring-nativenative-executablescompiler
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