Jakub Urban
Staff Platform Engineer
Prague Metropolitan Area Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJakub Urban is a seasoned Python developer and data engineer with 11 years of experience bridging scientific research and production-grade data platforms. Trained as a computational physicist (PhD), he spent a decade developing and leading integrated plasma physics simulations before transitioning to build science platforms and data infrastructure for revenue and hospitality tech teams. He excels at turning complex numerical codes and research workflows into reliable, scalable tooling that empowers data scientists and engineers. Known for leading small expert teams, he combines deep domain knowledge in simulation and numerical methods with practical platform engineering. Based in Prague, he brings a research-first mindset to product-focused environments and a track record of smoothing the path from prototype to production.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at Czech Technical University in PragueGVP
Czech, English, French, German
Github Skills (94)
python10
sublime-text9
javascript9
validation9
dataframes9
data-processing9
testing9
docker-desktop9
pandas-dataframe9
schema9
data-cleaning9
css9
packaging9
sqlalchemy9
fusion9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PyDataCZ/pydataladies-dashboard
Nov 2020 - Nov 2025
Dashboards lecture for PyDataLadies course
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
pythondashdashboardsplotly-dashdashboard
coobas/wowp
May 2015 - Oct 2018
WOWP (A WOrkfloW Framework in Python) is a modern, light-weight framework for integrated simulations in science.
Contributions:40 commits, 24 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 5 months
python
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