Tobiáš Potoček
Interim Team Lead at Apify
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolTobiáš Potoček is a pragmatic backend-focused software engineer and team lead with 11 years of experience across startups and tech giants, currently leading an Apify team in Prague after returning to an IC track. He combines hands-on engineering chops honed as an L4 Software Engineer at Google with multi-year engineering management experience at Kiwi.com, where he led Booking and Self-service teams. Comfortable across the stack, he’s shipped backend systems and scalable services while periodically stepping into leadership to drive delivery and mentoring. His background includes frontend and PHP/Nette work early in his career and academic stints in Prague, Bergen, and New Orleans, reflecting a blend of practical product focus and international perspective. Notably, he shifted from management back to individual contribution by choice, signaling a strong preference for coding-driven impact.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
maturita, maturita at Gymnázium & SOŠPg ČáslavUniversitetet i Bergen (UiB)Master's degree, Master's degree at Univerzita Karlova v PrazeUniversity of New Orleans
Czech, English, German
Stackoverflow
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57questions
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Github Skills (136)
declarative10
crawler10
javascript10
in-progress10
sdk10
puppeteer10
scrape10
typescript10
proxy-server10
apify10
chaining10
web-crawler10
scraper10
user-interface10
frontend10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tobice/flux-lumines
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:58 commits, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
tobice/seewordpower3
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:32 commits, 17 pushes in 1 year
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