Rostislav Jadavan is a hands-on CTO and product engineer with 15+ years of end-to-end software experience and a track record of leading small teams to ship impactful products quickly. Based in Brno, he blends full-stack craftsmanship—from cloud-native Java/Kotlin microservices and Go networking to JavaScript tooling—with product-focused ownership that keeps systems running post-launch. He has steered engineering strategy and R&D as a CTO while also founding and building startups like WatchCat, showing an entrepreneurial appetite for rapid iteration. Notable enterprise experience includes designing privacy and performance-critical backend services at Avast and developing blockchain APIs at Tatum. Colleagues rely on him for architecture decisions, mentorship, and reducing operational friction through DevOps-minded tooling. He prefers environments with fast decision cycles and measurable customer impact, often balancing leadership with active coding.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bc, Information Technology, Bc, Information Technology at Brno University of Technology
Contributions:3 releases, 22 PRs, 54 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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Rostislav Jadavan - CTO & Product Engineer at WatchCat