Petr Volny
Co-Founder & CTO at Upvest.cz
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolPetr Volny is a hands-on Co-Founder and CTO with 14 years of software engineering experience, currently building Upvest from the ground up in Prague. He combines deep academic roots in time-series similarity and a near-PhD level of research with practical full‑stack expertise spanning Java backends, rich Ember.js front-ends, and system-level projects. Early work includes building embedded jukebox hardware/software and enterprise BI SPAs at GoodData, where he also led open-source SDK efforts. A lifelong programmer who wrote his first BASIC program at age five, he continues to push UX improvements in open-source UI components (notably enhancements to ember-table). Petr brings an uncommon blend of product intuition, academic rigor, and low-level engineering experience to startup-scale product development.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD - Not finished, Information Retrieval, PhD - Not finished, Information Retrieval at Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Informatics
English, German, Czech
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Github Skills (16)
datatables10
javascript10
datatable10
html-table10
ember10
ember-addon10
css9
html8
emberjs6
maven6
repeat6
clojure6
svgjs6
eclipse6
vim6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Addepar/ember-table
Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Petr primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Ember table component. They implemented the `enableContentSelection` option, allowing users to select text within table cells and modified the CSS to support this functionality. Further contributions included updating documentation to reflect new features and providing an example of selectable text in a simple table. Lastly, the user updated dependencies and deprecated and replaced a few older ember elements with new ones.
ember-addonember
petrvolny/dotfiles
May 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:4 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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