Petr Huřťák
Senior Manager, AI Equity Research Platform Engineer
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolPetr Huřťák is a senior software leader with 12 years of hands-on experience building full-stack products and teams, currently leading AI equity research platform engineering at Versant Media. He combines product-focused engineering—having co-founded and built StockStory’s quantamental investment platform—with applied AI tooling and platformization for research workflows. A seasoned front-end specialist, Petr has contributed to notable open-source projects like Atom’s JavaScript language package and react-app-rewired (Less support), reflecting attention to developer ergonomics and cross-version compatibility. He has led cross-platform ReactNative rewrites for TV and mobile, introduced front-end best practices such as Storybook-driven UI design, and repeatedly simplified codebases by removing complexity. As an external lecturer at Czech Technical University he mentors students and runs meetups, bridging industry and academia. Outside product work he’s iterated on automated betting systems and high-stakes prototypes, showing a willingness to test unconventional ideas in production.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze
Czech, English
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
configurations10
lessc10
text-editor10
customisation10
editor10
configuration-file10
webpacker10
create-react-app10
react10
webpack10
code-formatting9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
atom/language-javascript
Dec 2014 - Nov 2015
JavaScript language package for Atom
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 3 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Petr primarily contributed to the JavaScript language package for Atom by modifying and creating snippets. Their work included adding snippets for common JavaScript functions like `querySelector` and `querySelectorAll`. They also addressed code formatting issues, such as indentation in switch statements, and refined existing snippets by improving tab stop behavior and renaming parameters for enhanced developer experience.
atomjavascriptlanguage-javascript
timarney/react-app-rewired
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Override create-react-app webpack configs without ejecting
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Petr primarily contributed to the `react-app-rewired` repository by developing and maintaining the `react-app-rewire-less` functionality. They added, updated, and formatted the code to support different versions of Create React App (CRA) and to enable the use of Less within React applications. Their work included adapting the rewire to accommodate changes in the underlying webpack configurations and resolving compatibility issues.
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