Tobiáš Potoček [cv]

• tobiaspotocek@gmail.com
• +420 604 880 671 (CZ)

You can find me on:

• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• StackOverflow
• Facebook

What keeps me occupied these days

• Engineering Manager at Kiwi.com
  Prague, Czechia (since March 2020)

  I lead Web & Mobile frontend teams that are responsible for ticket booking and post-booking self-service. I mostly focus on improving code quality and general engineering processes. I still write a lot of documents and try to make others write documents.

Prior work experience

• Senior Frontend Developer at Kiwi.com
  Prague, Czechia (November 2019 to February 2020)

  During my rather short occupation as a senior FE developer I mostly talked to people and wrote a lot documents. No code. Just documents.

• Senior-ish Software engineer at Google
  Munich, Germany (October 2017 to October 2019)

  I have continued my work in the sensitive and nuanced area of privacy and consent. As a team co-lead, I influence all major decisions, drive standalone projects and mentor junior team members. I regularly collaborate with remote teams across the globe. I have also expanded my tech scope to Android and Web frontends.

• Software engineer at Google
  Munich, Germany (2016 – 2017)

  I designed, implemented and deployed a scalable distributed service, acting as a consent backend helping consents in crucial Google products (like Google Assistant) become GDPR compliant.

• PHP/Nette Application Developer
  Alltoys spol. s r. o.(2013 – 2016)

  I designed, developed and improved many internal infrastructure tools in the area of retail and B2B sales.

Education

• Charles University in Prague
  Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (2013 – 2016)

  Master’s degree in Theoretical Computer Science (finished in September 2016)

• University of New Orleans
  Department of Computer Science (autumn 2015)

  Participating an in international exchange programme. I took classes in Distributed Systems, Planning in Artificial Intelligence and Fundamentals of Game Development.

• University of Bergen
  Department of Informatics (autumn 2014)

  Participating in the Erasmus exchange programme. I took classes in Cryptography, Social Web (analyzing data from social networks) and Semantic Technologies.

For full education and work experience please check out my LinkedIn profile.

My developer profile

Now that I'm an engineering manager, concrete technologies and tooling matter less than ever. By now, it is very likely that I have touched most of the aspects of a software engineer's life, at least on the conceptual level. And I seem to be a quick learner.

The highlights of my work

• LinkedPipes Application Generator (January – July 2016)

  My master’s thesis. I developed a web platform and a framework for automatic generation of simple web applications based on RDF linked data. The thesis is extending an ongoing research project LinkedPipes Visualization at my home faculty. The backend is powered by Scala with Play Framework, the frontend is using React.js with Redux. For more information please refer to the thesis text.

• tjfs (late 2015)

  During my stay at University of New Orleans we developed a high-availability distributed file system based on the original Google FS design. The file system is written completely in Java.

• Lumines (2015)

  JavaScript implementation of the legendary PSP game that you can try out on this page. It’s based on the bleeding-edge JS technologies like React.js, Flux and Immutable.js.

• SEE | Matouš Roskovec – seewordpower.cz (2015)

  Coding and MODx Revolution backend for the personal web page of my cousin, a copywriter. The page is Bootstrap based, fully responsive and fairly small despite it is Retina ready, has a custom font and contains lots of graphical elements.

Publications

• Introduction to React, Redux, Reselect and Immutable.js (2016)

  As a part of my thesis text, I wrote down a brief introduction into the JavaScript frontend technologies that are used in this project. Unlike many other tutorials, this summary puts emphasis on how these tools complement each other. You might also refer to this chapter, where you can find useful tips for when your React application starts growing and you find yourself in the need of writing a scalable modular code.

• Data-driven Application Generator (January – July 2016)

  The (exhausting) text of my master’s thesis, accompanying the actual software project LinkedPipes Application Generator. The text describes the underlying LDVM implementation, how it is integrated into the generator and how the framework works. It also presents and analyses a couple of efficient graph algorithms over an RDF triplestore.

• Level generation techniques for platformer games (2015)

  A short paper that I wrote at the end of my stay in New Orleans as one of my assignments. It merely organizes and sums up different approaches that are used for procedural level generation in platformer games. Interestingly, many of those approaches involve practical use of machine learning techniques that I encountered during my studies.

• Making of Lumines (2015)

  I published a miniseries of articles about React, Flux and Immutable.js on Zdroják.cz, a Czech popular online magazine for developers. The original text in English can be found here.

The rest of my online activities

• OpenSuse forum profile (registration required to view the profile)
• KDE forum profile (registration required to view the profile)
• Last.fm (check out my 90 000+ listened tracks!)