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Petr Kubelka

Ing. Petr Kubelka

E-mail: [email protected]
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/petr-kubelka
GitHub: github.com/KSonny4
Webpage: pkubelka.cz

About

Engineering Manager with a background in building high-throughput data pipelines, cybersecurity tooling, and trading integrations. Progressed from hands-on software engineering at Avast to leading teams at Ematiq, and now managing engineering at Mews. Passionate about growing engineers, delivering product value, and contributing to the Czech tech community through teaching and mentoring.

Work Experience

Mews - Engineering Manager (January 2025 - Present)

  • Engineering Manager at Mews, a cloud-native hospitality management platform used by modern hoteliers worldwide.

Ematiq a.s. - Development Team Lead (April 2022 - November 2024)

  • Directly managed 7 Python and Scala software engineers responsible for integrating critical APIs for trading into our internal product.
  • Transformed the team to be product-oriented, solving business problems and not arbitrary tasks with negative PnL.
  • Integrations delivered by our team resulted in generating millions of euros in revenue for the company each year.
  • Optimized and generalized process for integrating new APIs, reduced time needed for one integration by 60 %, thus making the delivery of the solution shorter.
  • Provided guidance and vision to the team, actively resolved issues, and devised strategies to acquire highly valuable real-time data.
  • Helped create clear processes for product delivery and designed a bonus scheme to improve transparency of company expectations.

Avast a.s. - Software Engineer (July 2019 - March 2022)

  • Member of the platform team responsible for developing and maintaining connectors that consume data globally, handling tens of terabytes daily.
  • Developed an automated pipeline to decrypt encrypted viruses using various heuristics, enabling Avast to detect otherwise undetectable malicious software.
  • Contributed to developing and managing microservices responsible for timely and secure deployment of critical security updates.
  • Developed Python microservices communicating over gRPC, Kafka, and RabbitMQ deployed to Kubernetes.
  • Focused on efficiently handling high loads of data using asynchronous programming.

Education

Ing., CTU Faculty of Electrical Engineering (2018 - 2020) Study branch: Software Engineering

Bc., CTU Faculty of Electrical Engineering (2015 - 2018) Study branch: Computer and Information Science

Skills

Management

  • Leadership: Communication, Team Management, Empathy, Hiring, Coaching, Mentoring
  • Management: Product Management, Project Management, Scrum Ceremonies, Strong Ownership

Technologies

  • Programming: Python, Go, Rust, Bash
  • Cloud: Azure, AWS, GCP
  • Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker
  • Message Brokers: RabbitMQ, Kafka
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis
  • Networking: Wireshark, Nginx, gRPC

Community & Teaching

  • Lecturer of Python at Czechitas (September 2019 - December 2021) – Helped women and girls explore IT and prepared them for new careers.
  • Volunteer with PyLadies – Teaching Python programming and Linux command line to beginners.
  • Regular participant at Engineering Leaders Community.

Knowledge Boosts

Open Source

Active on GitHub with 40+ public repositories. Arctic Code Vault Contributor.

Languages

  • Czech: Native Speaker
  • English: B2