Michal Gondar

A dedicated technology leader, with the right balance of perfectionism and pragmatism to enable exceptional delivery of complex projects to spec and on time.

Skills

• Problem solving
• Team and product management (building and empowering remote teams)
• Complex application development (designing and building system architecture)
• Full-Stack developer (backend, frontend, mobile, system infrastructure)
• Contributing business ideas to create value for customers

• GoLang
• JavaScript (ES6, NodeJS, React)
• SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• HTML
• CSS
• Swift
• PHP
• Python (Flask)
• C#
• Git
• AWS
• Elasticsearch

Experience

Paddle.com

Director of Engineering

• Manager of managers. Leading 8 direct reports and 36 engineers
• Scaling rapidly growing organisation: doubling P&E department and implementing new processes
• Managed teams and processes through the merger and acquisition of ProfitWell
• Hired, managed and led the team that implemented Paddle's iOS In-App Purchase solution

Feb 2021 → Present, London UK & Remote

Zákon & Pořádek s.r.o.

Technical co-founder and CTO/CPO

• Acted as a technical and product leader, also responsible for R&D
• Involved in all aspects of the business including marketing, sales, customer support
• Built and scaled a SaaS company to an industry leader in a newly created market
• Designed and developed core system architecture focused on collecting, processing and monitoring data
• Assembled, mentored and managed a fully remote team

Jul 2013 → 2020, Prague Czechia & Remote

Digital Garden

Full-Stack developer while travelling across Australia
Feb 2013 → Oct 2013, Sydney Australia

Musstard

Technical co-founder and CTO

• Developed e-commerce retail platform based on Magento for fashion start-up
• Implemented custom Magento extensions and modifications to fulfill business needs (multiple warehouse functionality, ajax shopping cart, gift vouchers based on custom rules)
• Designed and maintained infrastructure running on AWS
• Technologies: Magento, Varnish cache, Solr search, Apache, MySQL
• Communicated with investors, conducted technical interviews

Nov 2011 → Jul 2013, Sydney Australia

AOL / GoViral

Full-Stack Engineer

• Lead Javascript developer – developed HTML5 video player for Goviral video advertising platform. Produced high quality unit tested javascript application
• Implemented Selenium and BDD (Behat) tests
• Worked as a member of PHP core team developing features for internal systems
• Integral part of the Goviral start-up culture prior to its acquisition by AOL

Jun 2011 → Feb 2012, London UK

Live Nation Entertainment / Ticketmaster

Lead Frontend Engineer

• Lead Frontend Engineer for www.livenation.co.uk and its 17 additional language mutations
• Redesigning Ticketmaster checkout system
• Worked as part of agile development team
• Implemented facebook XFBML
• Created prototype for festival mobile applications

Feb 2009 → May 2011, London UK

Projects

Hobbies

Chess

Challenging and intellectually stimulating.

HackerRank

I enjoy solving problems and HackerRank is a perfect place for programming challenges.