Summary
Zdenek Svoboda is a senior product leader with 15 years of product and platform experience and a two-decade-long technical career spanning enterprise architecture, professional services, and hands-on development. Currently at Pure Storage after a long tenure building and scaling GoodData from co-founder-level product roles to SVP of Product, he combines cloud and SaaS product strategy with deep analytics and architecture expertise. He is comfortable toggling between board-level commercial decisions and rolling up his sleeves to prototype or ship code, bringing pragmatic technical judgment to product roadmaps. His background leading EMEA professional services and large account solutions means he pairs customer-driven insight with proven delivery at scale across telco, finance and public sector clients. Trained as a physicist, he brings methodical problem-solving and systems thinking to product leadership, often surfacing technical trade-offs early to align engineering and business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Nuclear Physics, Masters, Nuclear Physics at Czech Technical University in Prague
Gymnazium Pardubice
Russian, Czech, English