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.

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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 customer value

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

Experience

Zákon & Pořádek s.r.o.

Technical co-founder and CTO

Built and scaled SaaS company to industry leader in a newly created market
Designed and developed core system architecture focused on collecting, processing and monitoring data
Assembled and managed fully remote team

Jul 2013 → Present, Prague & Remote

Digital Garden

Full-Stack developer
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

HawkFlow.ai

Monitoring for AI workflows, crons, RPA.
In development

WOWidget

An application for iPhone and iPad to create custom widgets.
Released in 2020

Education

Comenius University in Bratislava: Bachelor's degree
Mathematics of economy, finance and modeling
Awarded in 2008

Certificates

Rest API (Intermediate) Certificate: HackerRank
Awarded in 2020
Triplebyte certified Generalist Software Engineer: Triplebyte
Awarded in 2020

Hobbies

Chess: Challenging and intellectually stimulating.
HackerRank: I enjoy solving problems and HackerRank is a perfect place for programming challenges.