Talk is cheap, if you want a person who can build big wonderful things look at my github.com/mP1

Miroslav Pokorny

Talk is cheap, if you want a person who can build big wonderful things look at my github.com/mP1

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Talk is cheap, if you want a person who can build big wonderful things look at my github.com/mP1

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Work Experience

Senior Platform Engineer at Streamotion (Fox Sports)
March 1, 2021 - September 1, 2025
Led backend and platform engineering for Fox Sports' streaming media, delivering hyperscale data processing and orchestration. Implemented and matured end-to-end workflows using orchestration platforms such as Netflix Conductor and Apache Kafka, with AWS SQS integration to manage large multimedia file pipelines. Built and maintained AI-powered platform components to automate repetitive tasks, replacing slower manual processes and improving reliability and throughput. Drove performance improvements by implementing unit and end-to-end tests and architectural refactors to scale to millions of users across multiple regions. Implemented security and compliance considerations, contributed to internal tooling to monitor, diagnose, and diagnose production issues. Mentored junior engineers, fostered open-source style collaboration, and partnered with cross-functional teams to plan and execute on strategic initiatives. Contributed to multi-cloud deployments (AWS) and containerized workloads via
Founder, Principal Engineer at Startup
July 1, 2018 - March 1, 2021
Founded and led a startup building the world’s most open spreadsheet platform. Developed the platform as open source with comprehensive documentation and automated tests. Implemented extensible architecture for spreadsheet features such as formatting, validation, and custom functions. Built and contributed to a plugin ecosystem, including standard features and open extensions. Created internal tools to automate testing and release processes, built UI components, and ensured UX consistency. Led a small cross-functional team, defined product roadmap, and engaged with early adopters, fostering a culture of test-driven development and continuous delivery.
Senior Software Engineer at Brights Park Labs
June 1, 2017 - July 1, 2018
Baseline security clearance to support Federal government deployments; Worked on Apache NiFi streaming platform, processing large datasets and files; contributed to refactoring for quality, performance, and error recovery; enhanced UI components and internal tooling; improved in-house language execution platform consistency; memory usage optimizations; contributed to CI plugins and wrote unit/integration tests; led open-source contributions to UI and internal forks; ensured robust, scalable tooling and developer experience.
Senior GWT Software Engineer at Appian
March 1, 2012 - October 1, 2016
Refactored and improved UI components within workflow authoring and execution platform to support accessibility and web standards; learned and leveraged JAWS; contributed to several open-source projects and internal forks; authored public API documentation, samples, and coding experience improvements; created testing tools and supported a diverse set of UI components to enhance developer experience.
Senior Integration Engineer and Integration Solution Architect at NSW Police
March 1, 1998 - March 1, 2008
Early contributor in migrating mainframe to modern web-based systems; led development of in-house Java-based Mainframe integration framework; documented best practices and provided consultancy to multiple government projects; led integration efforts with national systems, security and encryption standards, and API support for context-sensitive enhancements; designed and implemented user interface components (date pickers, hyperlinks) and tested various integration scenarios; oversaw numerous internal tooling and testing initiatives.

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Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Telecommunications, Professional Services

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