Vojta Burian
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolVojta Burian is a Principal Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience building platform teams and improving engineering velocity at scale, now leading teams at Microsoft after a multi-year tenure at Spotify. He has a strong track record of turning developer experience and onboarding into measurable business outcomes—driving retention improvements, launching the commercial Spotify Plugin for Backstage with rapid enterprise adoption, and increasing engineering capacity via innovative "continuous embeds." Vojta blends hands-on technical ownership from his QA and tooling roots with strategic product and people leadership, designing mentorship programs, on-call practices, and cross-org governance for 60+ engineers. Based in Prague, he pairs formal training in information systems with practical experience across ads, platform, and growth domains, and is passionate about crafting a missionary culture that sustains long-term engineering excellence.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied informatics, A, Bachelor's degree, Applied informatics, A at University of Economics in PragueMaster's degree, Information systems and technologies, A, Master's degree, Information systems and technologies, A at University of Economics, PragueInformation Technology, Information Technology at Umeå University
Czech, English, French
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Github Skills (46)
netflix10
google-inbox10
testing9
selenium-webdriver9
replay9
gmail9
infrastructure9
geckodriver9
microservices8
browser8
javascript8
nodejs8
google-cloud-platform8
inbox8
selenium7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
salsita/shishito-sample-project
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Sample project for Salsa WebQA library
Contributions:14 PRs, 21 pushes, 11 branches in 6 months
salsa
sankaritan/unalbumer
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch, 7 tags in 6 days
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