Jakub Roztocil

Software Engineer web apps Python JS

A software engineer who has been programming and making things for the web since the early 2000s. I am passionate about designing & building great products from the ground up.

Profile

  1. Developed & shipped successful projects ranging from polished web products, to distributed systems, to standalone libraries, extensions, developer tools, and CLI apps — as lead, team member, or sole developer.
  2. Extensive background in tech startups — built things in international tech teams as senior engineer, lead developer, co-founder, and CTO, in San Francisco, London, Copenhagen, Barcelona, and Prague.
  3. Author of popular open source software, such as httpie, one of the most starred Python repos on GitHub.

Consulting

Available for remote contract work. English Spanish Czech GMT+1

web apps MVPs interim CTO technical adviser

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Technologies

Technologies, tools, and platforms I am productive with.

  • Languages Python JavaScript CSS Sass CoffeeScript HTML XSLT
  • Frameworks Django Tornado Flask React Backbone.js Foundation
  • Servers Linux Ansible Docker Vagrant AWS DigitalOcean
  • Data Postgres Redis Pandas MySQL/MariaDB
  • Design Sketch Photoshop Balsamiq Lightroom
  • Also worked with TypeScript Java PHP AngularJS Google Cloud Platform
  • Currently exploring machine learning Golang Rust

Open source

httpie

Modern command line HTTP client.

Python HTTP CLI

rrule.js

Recurrence rules for calendar dates as per the iCalendar RFC.

JS TypeScript

Cointrol

Bitcoin trading bot with a real-time dashboard.

Python Tornado Django Postgres Redis JS Backbone.js

CloudTunes

Web-based music player for the cloud.

Python Tornado Redis MongoDB JS Backbone.js

httpcat

Utility for constructing raw HTTP requests on the command line.

Python HTTP CLI

See all open source projects on GitHub ›

Experience

Consulting

2005—, Worldwide

Web apps, MVPs, technical adviser, …

SubtleApps

2005—, Founder

Consumer internet products with 150M+ page views.

#enjoyPrague

2018—, Prague, CTO & Co-Founder

Experience platform with door-to-door service.

Homewings

2016—2018, London, CTO & Co-Founder

Online interior design platform and marketplace.

Pex.com

2014—2015, San Francisco, Full-Stack Developer

Platform to find, track & monetize videos across the web.

Opbeat (acquired by Elastic)

2013—2014, Copenhagen, Senior Software Engineer

Application performance monitoring platform.

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