Summary
Pavel Purma is a Senior Software Engineer based in Prague with nine years of professional experience building and operating reliable, large-scale systems. He has progressed from founder/CEO roles to engineering leadership—serving as CTO at PromoTron and Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Citrix—before joining Microsoft where he currently focuses on delivering production-grade software. Pavel blends hands-on engineering with team leadership and SRE practices, with a track record of moving startups to stable operations and scaling reliability in enterprise environments. His background running a company gives him a pragmatic, product-minded approach to technical decisions and incident response. Though primarily focused on backend and infrastructure, he brings cross-functional experience that helps align engineering, ops, and business priorities.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer