Vaclav Plajt is a Principal Software Developer with 8+ years of experience building reliable, production-grade distributed systems across cloud, Big Data, and IoT domains. Currently driving OCI Batch at Oracle, he led the design and delivery of automated, multi-region on-demand infrastructure, Kubernetes orchestration and secure multi-tenant networking while providing technical leadership for multiple teams. He previously led data and engineering teams at Unacast and Seznam where he combined Java and Python expertise with Spark, Flink, BigQuery and ML tooling to power high-availability data pipelines and search infrastructure. An active contributor to Apache Beam, he has hands-on experience improving core Java libraries, serialization and join semantics in a major open-source stream/batch framework. His background in ultrasonic NDT, robotics and control engineering reveals an uncommon blend of physics-driven R&D and large-scale software engineering, and he seeks pragmatic, value-focused solutions while remaining open to new technologies.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
industrial automation, industrial automation at Industrial secondary school
Engineer's degree (Ing.), Cybernetics - Artificial Intelligence, Engineer's degree (Ing.), Cybernetics - Artificial Intelligence at University of West Bohemia, Pilsen
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:115 commits, 14 PRs, 42 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Vaclav primarily worked on enhancing the Apache Beam project by addressing specific issues. Their contributions involved modifying existing code, primarily in Java, related to side input aggregation and multimaps. They also made improvements to the build process and resolved issues related to Kryo serialization. Furthermore, the user participated in test suite improvements, including adding new tests for Join and reducing the number of compilation warnings.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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Vaclav Plajt - Principal Software Developer OCI at Oracle