Work Experience

Head of Data Platform 2024-Present
Seznam.cz

Articulating the vision and defining the strategy for company-wide data platform. Leading the development of the data platform and overseeing strategy execution across the organization. Managing a team of data engineers and analytics to deliver high-quality, reliable, and scalable data products. Defining and implementing best practices for data architecture, data modeling, and data governance. Working closely with other departments to ensure the data platform meets business requirements.

Principal Product Manager 2022-2024
Seznam.cz

Managing and overseeing the product strategy for the digital advertising platform. Cooperating on innovation and establishing internal product management processes. Leading a team of several PMs.

Building an in-house analytics platform. Responsible for implementation of DataOps framework and overall development of a data ecosystem, incl. big data platform. Managing a data science team.

Participating in product discovery and development of privacy-focused solutions for the digital advertising platform which enable to work with user’s identity even after phasing out third-party cookies. Contributing to a cross-publisher project creating a new login-based identity solution for RTB ecosystem. Involved in IAB’s Rearc Task Force which is a global call-to-action for stakeholders across the digital supply chain to re-think and re-architect digital marketing.

Involved in adaptation to regulations for online advertising.

Senior Product Manager 2018-2021
Seznam.cz

Responsible for reliability and availability of statistics in an online advertising system. Working closely with executives and internal stakeholders to understand business strategy and customer’s needs. Translating user stories into actionable technology backlogs. Co-operating with agile development teams to deliver desired business values.

Driving technological innovations in big data processing like the shift towards streaming technologies.

Coordinating and planning work with agile development teams in multiple locations.

Product Manager 2016-2018
Seznam.cz

Responsible for reliability and availability of statistics in an online advertising system. Working closely with executives and internal stakeholders to understand business strategy and customer’s needs. Translating user stories into actionable technology backlogs. Co-operating with agile development teams to deliver desired business values.

Driving technological innovations in big data processing like the shift towards streaming technologies.

Coordinating and planning work with agile development teams in multiple locations.

Responsible for implementation of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the online advertising system.

Senior Java Developer 2016
Seznam.cz

Maintaining tool for product ads automation. Participating in technological innovation in big data processing.

Became familiar with Spring MVC framework and got acquainted with Docker, Impala, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka and Flink.

Lead Java Developer 2014-2016
ProŽeny.cz

Implementing a custom CMS based on the existing one and editors’ needs which includes rather complicated workflow. Responsible for site availability. Optimizing, scaling, speeding up the site.

Became familiar with Play framework 1.2.x, Selenium, GlassFish, AngularJS and modern HTML5 features. Spent quite some time to introducing CI processes.

Coordinating and planning the work of 2 Java developers, HTML/CSS coder, outsourced graphic designers and server admin.

Java Developer 2012-2014
ProŽeny.cz

Implementing a custom CMS based on the existing one and editors’ needs which includes rather complicated workflow.

Became familiar with Play framework 1.2.x, Selenium, GlassFish, AngularJS and modern HTML5 features. Spent quite some time to introducing CI processes.