Summary
Ondřej Ždych is an engineering leader at Seznam.cz, based in Ostrava, Czechia, guiding the Advertisement Systems domain. He currently manages three frontend/full-stack teams totaling more than 45 developers, collaborating with the P3O to plan roadmaps, provide project estimations, and allocate resources. He plays a key role in hiring and onboarding and mentors team members through regular 1:1s and technical meetings to foster growth. His technical focus is JavaScript across client and server (vanilla JS, ES2021+, Node.js) with expertise in React, AngularJS, and related tooling (Babel, Gulp/Grunt, ESLint, Docker). He has broad experience beyond JS, including .NET/C#, PHP, Java, and databases like MongoDB and MySQL, and he prefers UNIX-like environments (OSX, Debian, Ubuntu). Outside work, he pursues Japanese language studies and system/kernel programming, reflecting a curious, hands-on approach to technology.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mobile Technologies, Master's degree, Mobile Technologies at Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava, Fakulta elektrotechniky a informatiky
Technical Lyceum, Technical Lyceum at VOŠ a SPŠ Šumperk