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
Experience
- Paddle.com
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Director of Engineering
- Fintech SAAS company providing the complete payments, tax, invoicing and subscriptions solution for SaaS
- 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
- Zákon & Pořádek s.r.o.
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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
- Digital Garden
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Full-Stack developer while travelling across Australia
Feb 2013 → Oct 2013, Sydney Australia - Musstard
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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
- AOL / GoViral
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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
- Live Nation Entertainment / Ticketmaster
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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