Petr Švihlík
VP Of Engineering at Kentico
Brno - město, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolPetr Švihlík is a VP of Engineering with 11+ years of experience building and scaling high-impact engineering and developer relations teams, currently leading engineering at Kentico from Brno. He blends deep hands-on technical experience—from contributions to the Azure SDK for JavaScript and Azure Communication Services at Microsoft to platform and DevOps leadership at Kentico—with strategic product and community-building skills. Petr is skilled at translating strategy into execution, creating clarity and trust, and instituting feedback loops between community, product, and engineering that turn developer ecosystems into business assets. He favors learning-by-doing and experimentation, a mindset that shows up in both technical innovation and hands-on personal projects. Notably, his open-source and SDK work includes implementing authentication and Teams interoperability features that improve reliability and developer experience across globally distributed cloud services.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
FIT, FIT at Brno University of TechnologyBc., FI, Bc., FI at Masarykova univerzita Fakulta informatikyHigh School, Programming, High School, Programming at High School of Applied Cybernetics
English, Dutch, Spanish, Czech
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
apidoc10
azure-sdk10
testing10
typescript10
api10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
microsoft-azure9
nodejs9
asp-net9
azure9
msoffice9
unit-testing-framework6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-js
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for JavaScript (NodeJS & Browser). For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/javascript/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-js.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:102 reviews, 24 commits, 54 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Petr contributed to the Azure SDK for JavaScript, focusing on implementing and testing the "Custom Teams Endpoint" feature. Their work involved adding new API versions, updating documentation and samples, and writing tests for various scenarios, including expired and empty tokens. The user also made code modifications to test recordings, demonstrating involvement in API testing and potentially debugging. The commits suggest a focus on the communication-identity and communication-common modules within the broader SDK.
versionedbrowserjavascriptsdkconsumers
kontent-ai/aspnetcore-extensions
Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
ASP.NET Core extensions for Kontent.ai apps.
Contributions:22 releases, 60 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 1 month
kontentextensionskentico-kontentdotnetcoretag-helpers
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