Our team
Organisation
Zdeněk Vais
Founder · Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
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Zdeněk has been programming since secondary school. Since then he has gone from programmer through team leader to architect, building large financial systems, scientific applications and IoT solutions for aircraft along the way. He currently works as a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Oracle, where he builds the cloud for media services.
Kristýna Vais
Operations Manager
As Operations Manager, Kristýna keeps the studio running smoothly – from organising classes through invoicing and payments to access credentials and coordinating career counselling. She is happy to help you with anything related to course organisation.
Barbora Bohunská
Career counsellor · Recruiter, Logex
Bára helps our participants with career counselling and interview preparation. Alongside her work with us she is a recruiter at the IT company Logex.
Lecturers
Adéla Bierská
Data Engineer, Mastercard
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Adéla Bierská is a data analyst and lecturer. She currently works as a Data Engineer at Mastercard, where she builds data pipelines, transformations and data analyses. In her teaching she combines experience from software development and data analysis. She has long been involved in technical education and in teaching programming and data analytics.
Andrey Ershov
Lead engineer – DevOps & cloud
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During 15 years in IT Andrey has worked as a lecturer, tester and programmer in C#, Python, JavaScript and SQL, and has led a team in cloud infrastructure and DevOps. He is interested in the big picture, automation and building platforms that extend what others can do. Recently he has been focusing on healthcare.
Kateřina Volfová
Python developer
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Kateřina is a Python developer and lecturer who brings experience from real-world development, data analytics and testing into the classroom. In practice she develops services in Python, works with serverless architecture on AWS, databases and testing. Thanks to her experience leading programming courses, she can explain technical topics clearly, practically and without unnecessary theory.
Marian Kałuża
Software architect, Oracle
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Marian is an experienced developer, team leader and software architect. Over his career he has worked mainly on large enterprise systems and distributed applications. He currently works as a software architect at Oracle. With us he focuses primarily on teaching C#, Scrum and clean code.
Martin Balucha
.NET Developer, Tricentis
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Martin is a C#/.NET developer with more than six years of experience, currently working as a .NET Developer at Tricentis. During his career he has built a desktop ERP system, a cloud-native live-streaming platform and serverless solutions for licensing automation. He enjoys software architecture most of all and brings practical experience from real-world C# and .NET development into his teaching.
Martin Kucin
Senior DevOps Engineer, Yunex Traffic
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Martin works as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Yunex Traffic, where he focuses on modern infrastructure and orchestrating containerised applications with Kubernetes.
He is deepening his technical expertise through PhD studies devoted to research and the practical operation of AI applications and large language models (LLMs). This academic background lets him connect traditional DevOps with the latest trends in artificial intelligence, such as deploying complex AI pipelines and optimising model performance in production.
Oldřich Grulich
Founder of the AI startup Grove tech AI
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Olda has worked in IT for more than 20 years. Over his career he has held senior management positions at companies such as IBM, Infosys and Solitea.
In 2024 Olda founded the AI startup Grove tech AI, which specialises in custom artificial-intelligence solutions such as intelligent assistants, avatars and knowledge bases.
Pavel Beránek
University lecturer and researcher
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Pavel brings varied experience from many fields. He graduated in two university programmes: computer modelling and pedagogy. After his studies he worked as a programmer and as a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences. Today he is a university lecturer and researcher whose work focuses on virtual reality and AI agents. Besides our courses he teaches programming at university.
Peter Malik
Senior developer, Oracle
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Peter is an experienced developer with eight years of practice. Among his colleagues he is known for finding elegant solutions to complicated problems. He currently works as a senior developer at Oracle. With us he focuses on teaching C# and playful programming exercises.
Petr Kus
QA specialist (ex Test Architect, Thermo Fisher)
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Petr is a QA specialist and testing lecturer with more than fifteen years of experience. He spent much of his career as a test architect at Thermo Fisher, testing scientific applications and instruments – from desktop, web and mobile applications to firmware connected to hardware. He takes a holistic view of testing (automation, performance, security and manual testing) and currently focuses on the Robot Framework and PyTest ecosystem, which he enjoys passing on in his courses.
Rado Pitoňák
Co-founder & CTO, ZAITRA
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Rado is the co-founder and CTO of the space-technology company ZAITRA, where he develops compact neural networks that run directly on board Earth-observation satellites. He previously worked as a software engineer at Red Hat and studied computer science at Brno University of Technology, specialising in deep learning and object detection. He takes a practical approach to artificial intelligence – from designing and training neural networks to deploying them on real hardware – and enjoys sharing this experience in his teaching.
Roman Zydyk
Data engineer & data architect
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Roman is a data and IT enthusiast. He started in business intelligence and reporting, moved through data science and today focuses mainly on data engineering and data architecture. He prefers to process data in Python – from acquisition and cleaning through transformations and visualisation to automation. He has also created several online courses (Python, Azure, Tableau) and brings practical experience with data, SQL and the cloud into his teaching.
Štěpán Vondráček
Data Scientist, Deutsche Telekom
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Štěpán is a data specialist, lecturer and consultant focused on data analytics, Python, SQL and machine learning. He currently works as a Data Scientist at Deutsche Telekom, where he works with data, statistical modelling and the practical use of AI technologies. He has experience designing analytical solutions, developing data models and training technical teams in data science and modern analytics.
Václav Sahula
Game developer & producer, NIMH
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Václav is a game developer and producer with more than twelve years of experience in indie game development and virtual reality. He co-founded the game studio Dreadlocks and the development group Neitee, and studied computer engineering at CTU Prague (FEE). As a Unity generalist he covers the whole journey from game design and production through project management to development and QA – from VR through PC and Android to consoles – and passes this experience on in his teaching.
Zdeněk Vais
Founder · Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
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Zdeněk has been programming since secondary school. Since then he has gone from programmer through team leader to architect, building large financial systems, scientific applications and IoT solutions for aircraft along the way. He currently works as a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Oracle, where he builds the cloud for media services.