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{
  "name": "David Hrdina Němeček",
  "photo": "photo.png",
  "headline": "Principal Software Engineer at Oracle NetSuite",
  "summary": "UI platform architect specializing in AI-assisted engineering enablement, telemetry 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://www.dejvino.cz/cv"
  },
  "about": [
    "Principal Software Engineer at Oracle NetSuite, focusing on AI-assisted developer enablement, UI platform architecture, performance, and observability for 40k+ enterprise customers."
  ],
  "highlights": [
    {
      "title": "AI-first Design System Guidance Tooling",
      "description": [
        "Researched and prototyped an AI-first UI Toolkit guidance system leveraging Model Context Protocol (MCP). The tool covered over 260 component guideline documents, code samples and development best practices. It was authored in collaboration with 3 frontrunner UX designers, scaling their expertise across multiple teams.",
        "Created an automated code review bot leveraging this knowledge corpus, successfully trialed across 4 platform and app delivery teams to validate UI changes early in development."
      ],
      "date": "2025 – 2026"
    },
    {
      "title": "Telemetry Stack Architecture",
      "description": [
        "Shaped product telemetry architecture spanning frontend UI, backend integration, and AI interaction streams. Championed migration from legacy telemetry solutions to OpenTelemetry. Integrated Oracle APM for enterprise-grade performance monitoring.",
        "Designed action-root hybrid sampling strategy to achieve a 92% telemetry volume reduction while preserving critical user-behavior signals.",
        "Delivered in-app trace visualizer, driving up telemetry adoption among teams."
      ],
      "date": "2024 – 2026"
    },
    {
      "title": "UI Performance & Bootstrap Optimization",
      "description": [
        "Analyzed UI app bootstrap performance, driving improvements that gained 28% speed improvement.",
        "Eliminated redundant network requests by introducing TanStack Query network caching. Defined tiered JavaScript dependency loading mechanism for on-demand toolkit loading."
      ],
      "date": "2025 – 2026"
    },
    {
      "title": "Consumer-driven Contract Testing",
      "description": [
        "Prototyped UI <=> backend API contract testing using Pact to prevent cross-system breaking changes early in the development lifecycle.",
        "Defined consumer test suites, contract generation, and provider verification workflows between frontend UI applications and backend services."
      ],
      "date": "2025 – 2026"
    },
    {
      "title": "UI Testing Strategy & Architecture",
      "description": [
        "Led senior QA engineers in defining and executing the long-term UI testing architecture strategy across platform teams.",
        "Established automated test suites and quality guardrails to elevate testing standards."
      ],
      "date": "2021 – 2023"
    },
    {
      "title": "Pluggable Tax Calculation Engine",
      "description": [
        "Architected and led the development of a pluggable tax calculation engine for NetSuite cloud ERP.",
        "Coordinated technical strategy across 20+ software engineers in 4 squads, standardizing global tax calculation pipelines."
      ],
      "date": "2017 – 2020"
    }
  ],
  "cv": {
    "experience": [
      {
        "title": "Principal Software Engineer (UI Platform Architecture)",
        "company": "Oracle|NetSuite",
        "date": "2023 – present",
        "description": "Driving technical vision and solution architecture for the NetSuite UI Platform (NetSuite Next). Leading initiatives in AI-assisted developer enablement, telemetry architecture, performance optimization."
      },
      {
        "title": "Senior Software Development Manager (UI Platform)",
        "company": "Oracle|NetSuite",
        "date": "2022 – 2023",
        "description": "Engineering lead for multiple UI Platform teams building core framework components and developer tooling."
      },
      {
        "title": "Software Development Manager (UI Platform)",
        "company": "Oracle|NetSuite",
        "date": "2020 – 2022",
        "description": "Engineering lead for a UI Platform team building shared UI components. Acted as technical product owner while bootstrapping the team and establishing component delivery standards."
      },
      {
        "title": "Software Development Manager (ERP, Tax)",
        "company": "Oracle|NetSuite",
        "date": "2017 – 2020",
        "description": "Engineering lead for ERP Tax domain. Designed and delivered a pluggable tax calculation engine, coordinating technical direction for 20+ engineers across 4 squads."
      },
      {
        "title": "Senior Software Engineer (ERP, Tax)",
        "company": "Oracle|NetSuite",
        "date": "2013 – 2017",
        "description": "Development of cloud ERP tax calculation and reporting modules. Led large-scale refactoring of legacy codebases and improved calculation reliability for enterprise clients."
      },
      {
        "title": "Software Engineer",
        "company": "Q2 Interactive",
        "date": "2009 – 2013",
        "description": "Development of e-commerce, ERP, and CRM web applications and custom services."
      }
    ],
    "skills": {
      "Architecture & Domains": [
        "UI Platform Architecture",
        "AI-Assisted Engineering",
        "Developer Enablement & Tooling",
        "Telemetry & Observability",
        "Performance Optimization",
        "Consumer-Driven Contract Testing"
      ],
      "Languages & Core Ecosystems": [
        "TypeScript",
        "JavaScript",
        "Node.js",
        "Java",
        "Python",
        "OpenTelemetry",
        "Model Context Protocol (MCP)"
      ],
      "Spoken Languages": [
        "Czech (native)",
        "English (proficient)",
        "German (elementary)"
      ],
      "Certifications": [
        "OCI 2025 Certified Observability Professional",
        "OCI 2025 Certified AI Foundations Associate"
      ]
    },
    "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. Executed on a supercomputer cluster to perform real-time simulation of molecular forces, providing haptic feedback to a 3D pointing device."
      }
    ],
    "philosophy": "I design platform layers that stay out of the way while enabling everything else.</br>Quiet infrastructure. Measurable value."
  },
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Mandolin",
      "caption": "Octave mandolin is my instrument of choice. Wide range of tones, pleasant sound. Great way to relax your mind, explore melodies and harmonies.",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Electronics tinkering",
      "caption": "Building a useful device from scratch. Retrofitting modern brains into a broken vintage shell. Electronics is the magic that makes things alive.",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "name": "Synthwave",
      "caption": "Neon-filled nostalgia. Fun to create, relaxing to listen to it.",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "name": "3D Printing & Design",
      "caption": "Designing and printing custom parts that serve a purpose. Unique designs, useful accessories, toys or just repairs.",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "name": "Mountain Biking",
      "caption": "Going places under your own power. Exploring forests, trails and nature where cars aren't allowed.",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "name": "RC Cars",
      "caption": "Rock crawlers, construction trucks, military vehicles. Building a custom offroad course in the garden to trial them all.",
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    }
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}