Summary
Tomas Novella is a Platform Engineer and full-stack software professional with 12 years of experience building developer-focused systems and shipping production-grade web applications. Currently helping design an internal cloud PaaS at Absa Group, he has a track record of leading codebase consolidations and migrations that saved hundreds of developer hours. His background spans hands-on engineering, technical leadership and product management—from early Django work to modern TypeScript-driven frontends and platform services. At Circles he boosted product adoption and developer velocity by reducing technical debt, improving types and QA, and revamping team rituals. He combines deep academic training in theoretical CS and AI with practical experience scaling teams and systems across agencies and fintech. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he often surfaces hidden inefficiencies and drives end-to-end improvements that keep teams shipping.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Angewandte Informatik, Master's degree, Angewandte Informatik at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Master's degree, Theoretical computer science and Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Theoretical computer science and Artificial Intelligence at Charles University in Prague
english(c2), slovak(c2), hungarian(c1), german(b1), french(a2)