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Lukáš Kvápil · Software Engineer

Curriculum Vitae

Ten years of building web products end to end — from schema design to the last pixel of the empty state. Happiest where engineering rigour meets editorial care.

Contact[email protected]Czech Republic


Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Product engineering for a design-tooling SaaS with ~40k weekly active users.

  • Led the migration of the editor to a CRDT-based collaboration engine, cutting sync conflicts to near zero.
  • Rebuilt the design-token pipeline; theme builds went from 90 s to under 4 s.
  • Mentored four engineers; introduced RFC-driven decision records the team still uses.
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL

Frontend Engineer

Analytics dashboards for logistics companies — lots of data, small screens, impatient users.

  • Shipped a charting layer that rendered 100k-point series at 60 fps on mid-range hardware.
  • Drove the accessibility programme to WCAG 2.1 AA across the product.
  • React
  • D3
  • GraphQL

Web Developer

Websites and small applications for local businesses, from print shops to a philharmonic orchestra.

  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • WordPress

Education

MSc, Computer Science

Thesis on incremental parsing for live programming environments.

Skills

Languages & runtimes
TypeScript · JavaScript · Node.js · Rust (hobby) · SQL
Frontend
React · Astro · Tailwind CSS · Accessibility (WCAG) · Design systems
Backend & infra
PostgreSQL · GraphQL · REST · Docker · CI/CD
Ways of working
Technical writing · RFCs & ADRs · Mentoring · Remote-first collaboration

Languages

Spoken
Czech — native · English — fluent (C1) · German — conversational (B1)