Petr Novák
Development Lead (E-commerce) at Seznam.cz
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolPetr Novák is a seasoned development lead with 17 years of experience building and guiding engineering teams for large Czech web properties, currently leading e-commerce development at Seznam.cz. He combines hands-on backend expertise (Python, Kubernetes, Elastic, Vitess, Debian) with practical leadership—running multiple teams, budgeting, and smoothing cross-team communication. His background spans embedded and Linux-based video systems in C/C++, migration projects (SVN to git), and pragmatic automation improvements, showing depth across infrastructure and product code. An active contributor to the popular youtube-dl project, he has implemented new extractors and improved live stream handling, demonstrating a knack for integrating with diverse streaming formats. Known for mixing a detail-oriented Nordic rigor with a passionate, pragmatic approach, Petr excels at turning messy technical problems into reliable, production-ready systems.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnázium Nad AlejíMaster's Degree, Software Systems, Master's Degree, Software Systems at Univerzita Karlova v Praze
Czech, English
Github Skills (14)
data-extraction10
video-download10
youtube-dl10
extraction10
extractor10
mpeg-dash10
python10
feature-extraction10
pytest9
testing9
webscraping9
http-protocol9
unit-testing8
m3u8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 13 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Petr contributed primarily to the `youtube-dl` project by implementing features to support new extractors for video platforms. They added support for DASH manifests with SegmentLists and bare SegmentURLs, expanding the project's capability to download videos from a wider range of sources. Furthermore, they added a new extractor for the SeznamZpravy site and fixed issues with live stream extraction for DVTV, demonstrating a focus on adapting the tool for different video streaming services. The changes included modifications to the core extraction logic and test cases.
downloadervideosyoutubeyoutube-dlvideo-sites
che0/teh-tracker
Feb 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years
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