Summary
Šimon Let is a product-minded engineer with nine years of experience building reliable infrastructure, monitoring, and deployment tooling, currently shaping feature quality at Better Stack. He blends product design, customer conversations, and hands-on coding—wireframing by day and shipping code by night—to ensure features not only work but feel great. His background includes migrating platforms to AWS and creating company-wide IaC and alerting solutions at Showmax, and earlier work on spam and phishing detection and IMAP extensions at Seznam.cz. He holds a Master’s in System Programming from CTU Prague and authored the widely used resh CLI tool, demonstrating a knack for practical developer tooling and usability. Comfortable across Go, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, C/C++, and a long tail of ops and data technologies, he focuses on making systems maintainable and incident-ready.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague
Exchange (Master), Information Technology, Exchange (Master), Information Technology at Utrecht University
Master's degree, System Programming, Master's degree, System Programming at České vysoké učení technické v Praze
English, Czech