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{
  "name": "David Hrdina Němeček",
  "photo": "photo.png",
  "headline": "Principal Software Engineer at Oracle NetSuite",
  "summary": "Working on the UI platform architecture for 40k+ companies. Focused on AI-assisted engineering, observability, and performance.",
  "email": "explosive@dejvino.cz",
  "location": "Brno, Czechia",
  "phone": "+420 775 26 26 32",
  "contact_links": {
    "Website": "https://www.dejvino.cz",
    "Email": "mailto:explosive@dejvino.cz",
    "Resume": "https://dejvino.cz/cv"
  },
  "about": [
    "Principal Software Engineer at Oracle NetSuite, working on the UI platform for 40k+ companies."
  ],
  "highlights": [
    {
      "title": "Designed the Telemetry stack architecture",
      "description": [
        "I shaped the product's telemetry direction, spanning the UI, backend and the AI agents. We gained a unified cross-system view informing user behavior and performance.",
        "Product teams gained insigths through live dashboards. Details went from a user's click down to AI agents' internal processing."
      ],
      "date": "2024 – 2026"
    },
    {
      "title": "UI performance optimizations",
      "description": [
        "I continually reviewed the UI–backend network traffic for performance bottleneck, working with teams to improve them.",
        "I rolled out a persistent client-side caching library, cutting down 43% on page load times.",
        "A tiered bundle dependency loading mechanism made the first-time visitor's page size 72% smaller, improving their experience.",
        "I identified a design flaw causing an endpoint to return a 1000 times or more larger payload than expected, for some users on production. We redesigned the endpoint before this became a problem."
      ],
      "date": "2025 – 2026"
    },
    {
      "title": "UI testing architecture lead",
      "description": "I led a group of senior QA engineers, forming the UI testing strategy. I gained support for rolling out ----",
      "date": "2021 – 2023"
    },
    {
      "title": "Pluggable tax calculation engine",
      "description": "Tiered JS bundle dependency loading for shorter page load times.",
      "date": "2017 – 2020"
    }
  ],
  "outside_work": [
    "Mandolin",
    "Synthwave",
    "Electronics",
    "3D Printing",
    "Mountain Biking"
  ],
  "cv": {
    "experience": [
      {
        "title": "Principal Software Engineer (UI Platform Architecture)",
        "company": "Oracle|NetSuite",
        "date": "2023 – present",
        "description": "Driving the technical vision for the UI Platform. Responsible for feature discovery, high-level technical design, and architectural prototypes. Leading initiatives in product analytics, performance optimization, and AI-assisted developer experience. Mentoring senior staff and defining standards for CI/CD pipelines."
      },
      {
        "title": "Senior Software Development Manager (UI Platform)",
        "company": "Oracle|NetSuite",
        "date": "2022 – 2023",
        "description": "Engineering lead for multiple UI Platform teams. Building a UI framework and tooling used by the rest of the organization. Leader of a UI testing architecture group."
      },
      {
        "title": "Software Development Manager (UI Platform)",
        "company": "Oracle|NetSuite",
        "date": "2020 – 2022",
        "description": "Engineering lead for a UI Platform team building UI toolkit components used by the rest of the organization. Technical product owner while bootstrapping the team."
      },
      {
        "title": "Software Development Manager (ERP, Tax)",
        "company": "Oracle|NetSuite",
        "date": "2017 – 2020",
        "description": "Team lead for ERP: Tax. Design and implementation of a pluggable Tax calculation engine. Coordination of 20 people across 4 squads."
      },
      {
        "title": "Senior Software Engineer (ERP, Tax)",
        "company": "Oracle|NetSuite",
        "date": "2013 – 2017",
        "description": "Development of tax calculation and reporting modules in a cloud ERP system. Large-scale refactoring of legacy code."
      },
      {
        "title": "Software Engineer",
        "company": "Q2 Interactive",
        "date": "2009 – 2013",
        "description": "Development of e-commerce, ERP and CRM web applications and services."
      }
    ],
    "skills": {
      "Daily": [
        "TypeScript",
        "Java",
        "OpenSearch",
        "OpenTelemetry"
      ],
      "Languages": [
        "Czech (native)",
        "English (proficient)",
        "German (elementary)"
      ]
    },
    "education": [
      {
        "degree": "Master's degree",
        "field": "Parallel and Distributed Systems",
        "institution": "Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Brno",
        "date": "2011 – 2013",
        "thesis": "Efficient computation and visualization of correlations in medical signals. High-performance computation of correlations on large volumes of analog data in C++ using supercomputers. Visualization of the computed results through interactive exploration and processing of the data by a researcher in Python."
      },
      {
        "degree": "Bachelor's degree",
        "field": "Parallel and Distributed Systems",
        "institution": "Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Brno",
        "date": "2008 – 2011",
        "thesis": "Parallel implementation of force-field decompression algorithm. The solution executed on a supercomputer cluster to perform real-time simulation of molecular forces. This in turn provided haptic feedback to a 3D pointing device used to interact with the molecular simulation."
      }
    ],
    "philosophy": "I design platform layers that stay out of the way while enabling everything else. Quiet infrastructure. Measurable value."
  }
}