Petr Zapletal
Principal Engineer at Disney Streaming
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPetr Zapletal is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating highly scalable, reactive, and resilient distributed systems for both startups and large global companies. Based in New York, he currently helps build Disney Streaming’s next-generation platform powering Disney+, ESPN+, Star+ and Hulu, and previously led high-scale personalized adtech. A functional programming and open-source evangelist, Petr specializes in reactive systems, distributed streaming, big data and machine classification, and is the author of #ThisWeekInScala and a frequent conference speaker. He spans the full software lifecycle—from requirements and architecture to production operations—and brings hands-on expertise with Scala, Akka, Spark and related reactive platforms. Less obvious: his background ranges from low-level C++ DLP development to Java EE enterprise systems, giving him rare breadth from systems programming to cloud-native streaming.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ing., Information Technology, Ing., Information Technology at Vysoké učení technické v Brně
English, German, Čeština
Github Skills (30)
sbt9
dsl8
scala-native7
scala6
fastr5
truffle5
testing4
cassandra4
polyglot4
aot4
machine-code3
angularjs3
ethereum3
jruby3
high-performance3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cakesolutions/docker-images-public
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 8 months
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