Senior Product Engineer

From ambiguity to .

I take unclear product problems and own them all the way to shipped software — product, architecture, mobile, web, AI and delivery. Every claim here is shown as evidence.

  • 8+ years shipping production software
  • Founder + former CTO-level ownership
  • Mobile · web · APIs · cloud · AI · delivery

Why Maki

The short case for an interview.

Core stack — TypeScript, React Native, React, Expo, Next.js, Node.js, Go — and 30+ more across mobile, web, cloud and AI.

Experience

A founder's path to production ownership.

  1. React Native / Product Engineer

    · Lady TechnologiesPresent

    Builds and maintains a production React Native app in TypeScript — owning mobile UX, state, API data flows, forms, validation and complex date/time behavior.

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  2. Founder / Product Engineer

    · AmberaPresent

    Conceived, designed and built Ambera Forge end to end — a B2B tool that grades engineering effort from a task's review loop and sizes sprints to a team's real capacity, with a per-person privacy membrane — and owns the full product lifecycle.

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  3. Frontend Team Lead

    · cbData

    Led the frontend team on a responsible-gambling casino platform (React + TypeScript, mobile-first). Collaborated with the backend team on API design — including CAP (the operator's central authority) and SymbioBet (AI for responsible gaming) — integrated third-party services, and represented the company with customers.

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  4. Co-founder, CEO & CTO

    · Digiza s.r.o.

    Co-founded Digiza and delivered software end to end — from discovery and architecture through implementation, deployment and ongoing support.

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  5. Co-founder, CEO & CTO

    · PPM Financial Investment s.r.o.

    Co-founded a fintech company as CEO & CTO — building exchange trading bots, a crypto exchange and broker, and an automatic gold-price adjuster.

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  6. Lead Frontend Developer

    · Předplatit s.r.o.

    Led frontend development for a subscription e-commerce platform (Symfony/PHP, MVC), and collaborated on the database schema and API design; built the frontend in React.

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  7. Full-stack Developer

    · Dalten Media s.r.o.

    Built PHP/Symfony (MVC) real-estate applications for a Centrum.cz subsidiary — nextreality.cz and realitymix.cz, the RE/MAX and Next internal CRMs, and a tool for automatic conversion of the RÚIAN address registry.

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  8. PHP Developer

    · T-mapy

    Built PHP map applications for public administration.

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Selected work

Three products, owned end-to-end.

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Production React Native mobile app

Builds and maintains a production React Native app in TypeScript — owning mobile UX, state, API data flows, forms, validation and complex date/time behavior.

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How I work

How I take work from ambiguity to production.

Not a methodology slide — the real path, with the evidence at each stage. Switch project to see how it played out.

Product problem

  • Combines deep engineering execution with product thinking, UX sensitivity and a co-founder / former CTO background; comfortable taking ambiguous requirements from discovery to production.

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  • Translated client operational workflows and product goals into internal platforms, SaaS systems and customer-facing digital products.

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  • Conceived, designed and built Ambera Forge end to end — a B2B tool that grades engineering effort from a task's review loop and sizes sprints to a team's real capacity, with a per-person privacy membrane — and owns the full product lifecycle.

Problems I can own

  • Take an ambiguous product from discovery to production

    Turn ambiguous requirements, business workflows and Figma/product input into maintainable software and shipped outcomes.

  • Own a production React Native app end-to-end

    State management, server data, forms, validation, date/time logic, navigation, notifications and scalable UI systems.

  • Ship across frontend, backend, cloud and delivery

    Frontend, backend/API integration, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, analytics, subscriptions and release readiness.

  • Modernize legacy systems without stopping delivery

    Improve legacy PHP/.NET/jQuery systems incrementally and debug hard production issues across the application, build and delivery layers.

  • Integrate AI where it creates real product value

    LLM product integrations (Anthropic Claude), context-aware personalization and AI-assisted workflows.

Certifications

LABA

Women in Leadership (Ženy ve vedení)

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Women in Leadership (Ženy ve vedení) — LABA
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