Radek Lát
Technical Lead at Freelance
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolRadek Lát is a Technical Lead and versatile Python backend engineer with 11 years of experience building maintainable, production-ready services across REST APIs, messaging, databases, containers, CI/CD and AWS. He has progressed from hands-on roles at startups and consultancies to leadership positions at Doist, Cookpad and Heureka Group, with a recent mix of freelance work that keeps him close to open-source and tooling. Radek is skilled at shaping engineering practices—introducing TDD, static analysis, CI improvements and mentoring teams—while still writing readable code that enables rapid iteration. Comfortable in remote and async environments, he excels at quickly mastering new technologies to meet company-specific needs. Notably, his background includes applied research in distributed systems and text-mining, and he has implemented performance-conscious Python libraries and orchestration tools that predated modern config-management patterns.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Networks and Communication, B, Master's Degree, Computer Networks and Communication, B at Brno University of TechnologyHigh School, Computing Systems, 1, 1, 1, 2, High School, Computing Systems, 1, 1, 1, 2 at Secondary Technical School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Liberecmaster, Information Technology, A, master, Information Technology, A at Technological Educational Institute of Crete
English, Czech, German, Spanish, Slovak
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Github Skills (200)
parser10
python10
json-schema10
data-parsing10
todoist10
internationalization10
validation10
pythonic10
localization10
wrapping10
update-checker10
points10
translation10
gettext10
scoring10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
radeklat/mqtt-influxdb-gateway
Oct 2021 - Nov 2023
An MQTT gateway sending data to InfluxDB
Contributions:4 releases, 15 PRs, 89 pushes in 2 years
influxdbsendingmqttgateway
radeklat/words-to-regular-expression
Oct 2014 - Dec 2018
A command line tool and Python library for converting lists of strings into matching regular expressions (finite automata).
Contributions:1 release, 36 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 2 months
command-line-toolpython-libraryregular-expressionspythonnfa
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