Zdenek Hynek
Senior Software Engineer at PhysicsX
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolZdenek Hynek is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building data-driven systems, from founding a full-stack agency to leading development teams in research and media organizations. He combines pragmatic engineering with product-focused thinking—shaping prototypes into maintainable systems while prioritizing documentation, collaboration, and the occasional ruthless code deletion. His background in cartography and geoinformatics informs a strong spatial-data intuition, applied across startups, academic projects, and a recent founding engineer role at Syntensor. Comfortable across the stack, Zdenek has led front-end efforts at The Economist Group and steered development as Head of Development at DATA4CHANGE, delivering tools that translate complex data into actionable insights. Having run his own business for years, he brings entrepreneurial discipline and a talent for turning ambiguous requirements into elegant, business-impacting solutions.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
HND, Interactive Media, HND, Interactive Media at Prague CollegeExchange stay, Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Exchange stay, Geographic Information Science and Cartography at École normale supérieure de LyonData Science Intensive Bootcamp, Data Science Intensive Bootcamp at SpringboardMSc, Cartography & Geoinformatics, MSc, Cartography & Geoinformatics at Masaryk UniversityThe University of Arizona
English, French, Czech, German
Github Skills (62)
data-visualizations10
visualization10
charts10
typescript10
graph-analysis10
trend10
svg10
data-visualization10
visualizations10
memgraph10
react10
paypal8
canvas8
wordpress-plugin8
membership8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
data4change/uproar-tool
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:51 PRs, 42 pushes, 49 branches in 2 months
zdenekhynek/browser_snapshots
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:18 PRs, 57 pushes, 15 branches in 11 months
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