CTO | Director of Engineering | Founder
Brno, Czech Republic
Technology executive with 15+ years of experience building engineering teams and shipping products at scale. Multiple CTO roles across fintech, insurtech, IoT, and energy tech. Technical design authority at Deutsche Bank for risk analytics platforms, leading cross-functional teams of 35+ engineers. Currently building an AI-powered cybersecurity platform as a founder.
Salary
GBP 100,000 – 180,000
Allye
Apr 2025 — Jan 2026
Led software development for a battery energy storage system built around second-life EV batteries. Designed AWS IoT Core architecture handling hundreds of devices and 500 million data points daily. Built real-time monitoring and control web application, developed remote IoT device management system.
Penetrify
Jan 2025 — Present
Building an AI-driven autonomous penetration testing platform for startups and SMBs. Architected full platform on AWS using Python, Terraform, DynamoDB, and Cognito. Integrated AI-based vulnerability analysis, designed multi-tenant SaaS architecture with Stripe billing and GitHub App integration.
Wattstor
Aug 2022 — Dec 2024
Owned all aspects of software development for a battery energy storage platform. Built engineering org from 0 to 25 engineers in 6 months, shipped 100+ product releases, scaled from 3 to 1200 devices under management, achieved 99.9% uptime.
Sufio
May 2022 — Aug 2022
Interim CTO engagement to define technical roadmap and platform strategy for e-commerce invoicing SaaS. Conducted comprehensive platform audit and identified critical architectural bottlenecks.
Joyspot Solutions
May 2020 — Apr 2022
Co-founded and ran all technology from day one. Delivered multiple platforms including fintech solution 'Zapomenute miliardy' and social platform 'Happygram'. Implemented scalable microservices architecture on modern cloud infrastructure.
MetaIT & VacuumLabs
Jan 2020 — Oct 2020
Stepped in as interim CTO to rescue failing projects. Turned around BeiT and StrongDoc platforms, accelerating time-to-market by 24 weeks. Realigned team structure and introduced transparent reporting.
Creative Dock
Dec 2018 — May 2020
Led fintech and insurtech product development across Swiss, Dutch, and Czech markets. Established technology office in Brno. Delivered production systems for clients including Sygnum, Brinker, Groupe Mutuel, and NN.
CGI (Logica) at Deutsche Bank
Jul 2014 — Dec 2018
Technical design authority for risk analytics platforms. Coordinated 35+ engineers across multiple parallel workstreams. Reduced release cycle time from 180 days to 30 days by introducing CI/CD pipelines.
MSc · IT Security & Computer Systems
1999 – 2005