Tomáš Pažourek

Software Engineer

I am a software engineer from Czechia, with over a decade of experience in full-stack development, specializing in the .NET ecosystem and cloud applications, across a diverse range of software projects. I am focusing my efforts on driving technological upgrades, refining development workflows, boosting system performance, robustness, and reliability.

Professional Experience

Staff Software Engineer

SolarWinds Czech, s.r.o.
Brno, Czechia
Aug 2024–now

Responsible for development and technical leadership of underlying platform for .NET cloud microservices, associated tools, libraries, processes and automation

Platform Architect

Oriflame Software, s.r.o.
Brno, Czechia
4 years 9 months (Nov 2019–Jul 2024)

Maintained and modernized the company's flagship eCommerce application, a large monolithic system built on the .NET Framework running in Microsoft Azure
Designed and implemented processes and tooling around version control, code analysis, continuous integration (CI) and deployment
Contributed to architectural consultations and design practices, facilitating its technological upgrade and alignment with modern .NET ecosystem
Improved local development environment, achieving notable enhancements in performance, automation, and build efficiency through customized tooling
Served as the final escalation point for resolving complex and critical system incidents
Identified performance bottlenecks and implemented optimizations, improving efficiency and achieving cost reductions
Set up new monitoring tools and dashboards to quickly identify system problems improving overall system observability
Participated as a technical lead in a new microservice project replacing a legacy system, focusing mainly on integration with existing microservice ecosystem, setup of service boundaries, and onboarding of new engineers

Lead Developer

Voracio Commerce Ltd.
Huddersfield, United Kingdom
4 years 6 months (Jul 2015–Dec 2019)

Responsible for architecture and design of a new eCommerce platform
As a solo developer, responsible for all parts of the process from the inception (greenfield project) to production and operation
Built on top of Microsoft stack (.NET, SQL Server, Azure)
Definition of development processes with regards to modern practices
Maintenance of legacy systems in Classic ASP and challenges of migration to modern systems
Technical leadership, part of a small growing company (started as a 2-person company, 5 employees at the end)
Working full-time remote for the whole period, experienced with the challenges of telecommuting

Intranet Developer

Y Soft Corporation, a.s.
Brno, Czechia
5 months (Feb 2015–Jun 2015)

Implementation of web-based IS for booking and management of devices inside the company
Development in ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework Code First, UI designed using LESS and customized Bootstrap
Responsible for the entire software development process (analysis, UI design, data modelling, programming, deployment) of the project
Mobile-first approach to UI design

Full Stack Developer

Hano AS
Billingstad, Norway
1 year (Feb 2014–Jan 2015)

Projects related to web-based booking systems, electronic point of sale, payment solutions
Experience with heavy-client web applications
Development in ASP.NET MVC, plain ASP.NET, C# and VB.NET, Entity Framework, MSSQL Server (T-SQL stored procedures), HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, WebSockets, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery UI
Work on touch-based user interfaces

.NET Developer

IReSoft, s.r.o.
Brno, Czechia
2 years 3 months (Jul 2011–Aug 2012, Feb 2013–Dec 2013)

Development of enterprise information systems for several SMEs, SaaS model
Focus on API design, WS development (REST, SOAP, XML-RPC), interoperability with other systems
C#, DevExpress, Windows Forms, WCF
Worked independently on several applications for Windows CE for embedded devices (.NET Compact Framework, Resco Toolkit)

Web Developer

Freelance
Zlín, Czechia
4 years (2007–2011)

Development of small MVP web applications in Nette Framework on PHP platform
Custom content-management systems and intranet applications for small businesses (travel agency, realty agency, car sales, web presentations)
Responsible single-handedly for the whole software development process (analysis, UI design in Photoshop, coding in HTML/CSS, data modelling, programming, deployment, communication with the customer)

Skills & Interests

Backend

C#, .NET Framework/.NET Core
Active in the open-source community as a maintainer and a contributor
Microsoft SQL Server, database design, query performance tuning
ORMs, Dapper, Entity Framework, NHibernate
Performance analysis and optimization
System architecture, testability, SOLID principles, IoC
Static code analysis, Roslyn, SonarCloud
Automated testing, xUnit, NUnit
API design, WS (SOAP, REST), system integration
Security best practices

Frontend

Design of large-scale applications with HTML/CSS/SASS/LESS
Experience with theming, customization, extensibility
UX on touch-based interfaces, embedded devices, responsive web design
Vanilla JavaScript, jQuery, experience with SPA-based apps, client-side performance optimization
Adobe Photoshop

DevOps

Source code management, branching and versioning models, Git, SVN
Software development lifecycle (SDLC)
Build and workflow automation, CI/CD, PowerShell, MSBuild, Cake, Gulp, LiveReload, Azure YAML Pipelines, AppVeyor
Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure
Administration & maintenance of IIS web servers, Windows VMs, Microsoft SQL Server VMs
Application and server monitoring

Leadership

Agile methodologies (people over process, Kanban)
Hiring processes, employee onboarding and mentoring
Definition of development life cycle processes
Knowledge-base and documentation management

Education

Service Science, Management, and Engineering

Master's Degree
Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics
Brno, Czechia
3 years 5 months (Sep 2012–Feb 2016)

Business aspects of IT, service economy, soft skills, team project leadership, software engineering, principles of large-scale information systems, management and marketing strategies

Erasmus Scholarship

Master's Degree Exchange Programme
Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Eindhoven, Netherlands
6 months (Sep 2012–Feb 2013)

Data mining, information retrieval, automated reasoning, machine learning, web information systems and computer security

Computer Systems and Data Processing

Bachelor's Degree
Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics
Brno, Czechia
3 years (Sep 2009–Aug 2012)

Theoretical CS, programming languages and paradigms, basics of software engineering, computer security, database modelling, analysis and design of computer systems