Vojta Kopal
Head Of Data
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolVojta Kopal is a data and engineering leader with 14 years’ experience building and scaling cross-functional teams and data platforms, currently serving as Head of Data at Apify. He grew Mews’ data organization from zero to 35 people, launched a customer-facing BI product, and implemented a lakehouse-based platform (Azure Databricks, Delta Lake) that delivered 30+ data products to thousands of hospitality clients. Comfortable bridging technical execution and commercial strategy, he has run pricing, rollout and vendor management while embedding data roles into product squads to drive adoption. Trained in theoretical computer science (PhD track) with Harvard Business School Online credentials in strategy and leadership, he blends rigorous research instincts with practical product and operational discipline. Notably, his background spans frontend migrations, analytics engineering and mobile data processing—evidence of a rare full-stack data leader who still understands client-facing UX and engineering trade-offs.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical Computer Science at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and PhysicsOther; Certificate in Strategy Execution, Complete, Other; Certificate in Strategy Execution, Complete at Harvard Business School OnlineMaster's Degree, Artificial Intelligence (exchange student), Master's Degree, Artificial Intelligence (exchange student) at Utrecht University
English, Czech, German
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Github Skills (96)
cordova-plugin10
artifacts10
devcontainer10
npm10
cordova10
javascript9
push-notifications9
pipeline9
image9
data-quality9
exploratory-data-analysis9
eda9
data-integrity9
data-profiling9
data-validation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gufy/surrogate-cmaes
Dec 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
JaPoNec/samples
Sep 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 PRs in 2 years 10 months
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