Maki Vlach

Why interview Maki

1. 1

   Owns a production app

   Ships kegg's React Native app — UX, state, APIs, subscriptions, analytics, observability and releases.

2. 2

   Founder + product engineer

   Conceived, designed and built Ambera end-to-end — AI planning, subscriptions and production iteration.

3. 3

   Co-founder / CTO-level

   Co-founded Digiza and delivered client software from discovery and architecture to deployment and support.

4. 4

   8+ years, in production

   Building and shipping mobile apps, SaaS, internal platforms and customer-facing web since 2016.

5. 5

   Ambiguity → production

   Owns the whole path: discovery, architecture, implementation, cloud delivery, analytics and subscriptions.

Best-fit roles

What Maki owns

• ProductCombines deep engineering execution with product thinking, UX sensitivity and a co-founder / former CTO background; comfortable taking ambiguous requirements from discovery to production.
• ArchitectureContributes to mobile platform architecture in a pnpm monorepo using Re.Pack/Rspack with modular, microfrontend-oriented boundaries. kegg →
• ImplementationBuilds and maintains a production React Native app in TypeScript — owning mobile UX, state, API data flows, forms, validation and complex date/time behavior. kegg →
• DeliveryCloud and delivery across Cloudflare, Google Cloud and Vercel with GitHub CI/CD.
• Operations & analyticsInstruments product behavior with PostHog and errors with Sentry, iterating on onboarding and monetization — including a Stripe per-seat Pro subscription. Ambera Forge →

Experience

• React Native / Product Engineer · Lady Technologies

  present

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

• Founder / Product Engineer · AmberaFounder

  present

  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.

• 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.

• Co-founder, CEO & CTO · Digiza s.r.o.Founder

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

• Co-founder, CEO & CTO · PPM Financial Investment s.r.o.Founder

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

• 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.

• 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.

• PHP Developer · T-mapy

  Built PHP map applications for public administration.

What's not claimed

Kept honest — where the evidence is thin, it's said so.

• Native iOS/Android (Kotlin, Swift) is listed but not project-proven — treat as working exposure, not depth.
• Exact role dates and tenure aren't published here — happy to share on request.