Vlastimil Menčík
Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolVlastimil Menčík is a Software Engineering Technical Leader based in Prague with 13 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, primarily using Scala and JVM technologies. He has driven backend architecture and team delivery at Cisco’s Stealthwatch organization and previously built large-scale cloud systems at Avast serving hundreds of millions of users. His technical stack spans Scala, Akka, Spark, Cassandra, Kafka, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS, with a track record of moving teams from Java to idiomatic Scala and championing reliable, observable cloud services. Vlastimil blends hands-on coding with mentorship—he led one of the Czech Republic’s early commercial Scala projects and has a history of mentoring peers during language and platform transitions. He favors pragmatic, resilient designs for streaming and event-driven architectures and is comfortable operating across both data-processing and operational tooling. With an Mgr in Computer Science from Charles University, he combines formal training with deep production experience in distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnázium DěčínMgr, Computer science, Mgr, Computer science at Charles University
English, German
Github Skills (37)
java9
polyglot9
aot9
streaming8
rocket8
akka8
concurrent8
graalvm8
reactive7
javascript7
ruby7
high-performance7
python7
concurrency7
compiler7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vmencik/soap-async
Apr 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
vmencik/akka-graal-native
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Example of Akka HTTP server compiled with GraalVM native-image
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 months
akka-httpscalanative-imagegraalvmakka
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