Tom Hykel
Senior Full-Stack Developer at OpenProject
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Hykel is a senior full-stack developer and technical lead based in Prague with over a decade of experience delivering production-grade software and infrastructure. He has led and shipped systems ranging from planet-scale database optimizations at AWS to fintech mobile apps and community banking platforms for African markets, and has operated thousands of Linux servers in production. He prefers long-term ownership, pragmatic technology choices, and close product-UX feedback loops, pairing hands-on engineering with team mentoring. Tom’s career blends systems-level expertise (SRE/DevOps) with product-focused engineering, allowing him to bridge backend scale and user-centered front ends. Currently driving full-stack work at OpenProject after leading engineering at Kwara, he is drawn to projects with measurable social or product impact. An under-the-radar strength is his habit of combining academic research experience with practical ops know-how, enabling robust, well-instrumented systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Technical lyceum, High School, Technical lyceum at VOŠ a SPŠ StrakoniceBachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology
English, German, Czech
Github Skills (12)
4g10
simulator10
baduk9
simulation9
openapi5
api5
rails4
api-blueprint4
swagger-ui4
swagger3
rswag1
roku1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thykel/bachelor_thesis
Jun 2015 - Aug 2022
My FIT BUT bachelor thesis.
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 7 years 2 months
thesisbachelorbachelor-thesisfit
kvetak/RINA
Aug 2014 - Jun 2016
RINA Simulator
Contributions:234 commits, 3 PRs, 182 pushes in 1 year 9 months
optimizationsrina4gsimulationsimulator
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