Vladimír O
Product Builder at Pikarama
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolVladimír O is a Product Builder and independent software engineer with 15+ years of experience specializing in JVM languages, DSLs, TDD and continuous integration. He has deep Groovy and Java expertise, having led the Gaelyk project and contributed notable compiler and @BaseScript features to the flagship Apache Groovy project. As Principal Software Engineer and Developer Experience lead at Agorapulse he balanced platform engineering, build tooling (Gradle) and OSS maintenance while mentoring backend teams. He co-founded AppSatori and has repeatedly driven migrations, consolidation and CI/CD automation across cloud environments, including Terraform deployments to Azure. Based in Prague, he combines hands-on compiler-and-framework work (Micronaut, CodeNarc) with product-focused delivery, often surfacing infrastructure-level improvements that reduce developer friction. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic tinkerer who turns deep language-level insight into reliable, production-ready tooling.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
master (Ing.), Information technologies, master (Ing.), Information technologies at Prague University of Economics and Business
English, Czech, French, German
Stackoverflow
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33answers
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Github Skills (33)
unit-testing10
programming-language10
netty10
grails10
back-end-development10
groovy10
testing10
micronaut10
java10
javas10
code-analysis10
compiler-compiler10
compiler10
gradlew10
gradle10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CodeNarc/CodeNarc
May 2018 - Jun 2021
CodeNarc is a static analysis tool for Groovy source code
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 21 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vladimír primarily contributed to the `CodeNarc` project by implementing and improving rules for code quality analysis in Groovy. Their work focused on identifying and enforcing best practices, specifically addressing constraints on string properties within Grails domain classes, as well as improving code style and adding support for handling `importFrom` methods. The contributions included writing tests and refactoring existing code to enhance the rule's functionality and maintainability. Furthermore, the user developed a rule focused on the direct usage of GORM methods.
codenarcgroovystatic-analysiscode-qualitycode-quality-analyzer
sitemesh/sitemesh3
Aug 2013 - Aug 2014
SiteMesh 3: Official repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits, 1 comment in 1 year
Contributions summary:Vladimír primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and adding support for the Gradle build system. They fixed broken tests, indicating a focus on maintaining code quality and ensuring the reliability of the project. Additionally, the user integrated Gradle, which suggests involvement in build process management and improving the project's build capabilities. Furthermore, the user made changes to the SiteMeshFilter, and PathMapper, in order to correctly include and exclude elements as well as expanding properties.
sitemesh
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