Zdenek Nemec
Founder at superface
Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolZdenek Nemec is a seasoned founder and CTO with 13+ years leading API-first and Agentic AI initiatives, currently building Superface.ai to enable reliable, autonomous agent interactions with enterprise systems. He previously founded Good API and as Director of DSL Development at Apiary authored API Blueprint and co-authored MSON—tools adopted by hundreds of thousands of developers to standardize API design. Zdenek combines deep research and product instincts with practical delivery, having advised Fortune 500 firms on API strategy and helped clients like DHL, Adidas, Inditex, and KLM-AF accelerate integrations. He’s an entrepreneurial thought leader who champions Conway’s Law and developer experience, pairing architecture-level thinking with hands-on engineering and team mentorship. Based in Prague, he focuses on making complex AI and integration problems tractable—reducing go-live risk, maintenance costs, and operational fragility for production agents.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Software engineering and economics, Software engineering and economics at Czech Technical University in Prague
English, Czech, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
parser10
json-schema10
http10
swagger10
oas10
specification10
rest-api10
openapi10
avro10
architecture10
sublime-text10
apiary10
api10
rest10
json10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
adidas/api-pm-training
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Training materials to deliver an API Product Owner training. The training follows a "learning by doing" methodology with big emphasis on students solving a realistic problem for the first time with the facilitation of an instructor. The training is split in modules with each module touching upon different areas of responsibilities for an API product owner.
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 14 days
apisplitsolvingproduct-ownermethodology
zdne/linter-api-blueprint
Dec 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 6 months
apiatomatom-linterlinter
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