Jirka Svoboda

• 🤖 AI & full-stack engineer building intelligent applications
• ❤️ passionate about AI agents, AI SDK and LLM-powered systems
• 🚀 Next.js, TypeScript, AWS, Langfuse and Vercel
• 🛠️ daily driving Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot
• 🇨🇿 based in Prague, Czech Republic
• 🎂 born in 1989

Feel free to reach me on

• Email
• GitHub
• StackOverflow
• LinkedIn

💻 Technical Experience

Tech Lead Engineer @ EPAM
(Mar 2023 - Present)

• Segments: Pharmacy, Business Intelligence
• Technologies used: Next.js, AI SDK, Tailwind, Drizzle, AntD, Prisma, tRPC, Zustand, Zod, Vitest, Node.js, AWS, GitHub
• Integrating multiple BI tools into single platform
• Making technical decisions about architecture
• Building AI-driven features and automation pipelines using AI SDK and AWS Bedrock
• Integrating Langfuse for LLM observability and tracing
• Establishing testing and code quality metrics
• Mentoring other team members
• AI Stack: Claude Code, Copilot, AI SDK, AWS Bedrock
  
  

Lead Engineer @ EPAM
(Jan 2022 - Mar 2023)

• Segments: Finance, Trading
• Technologies used: React.js, Redux Toolkit, RTK Query, AG-Grid, Bootstrap, Zod, Cypress, Node.js, Express.js, GitLab, Jenkins
• Turning MVP into fully-featured project built on React.js
• Making architecture decisions
• Establishing e2e testing and code quality metrics
• Integrating the project into client's platform
• Co-working with DevOps on enhancing CI/CD process
• Being the point of contact in cross-team communication
• Mentoring others about React.js
• AI Stack: Cline, Copilot, AI SDK
  
  

Senior Engineer @ EPAM
(Jun 2021 - Jan 2022)

• Segments: Finance, Trading
• Technologies used: Stencil.js, Rambda.js, Web-components, AG-Grid, Express.js, JIRA, GitLab, Swagger, Jenkins
• Developing admin FE panel for trading platform
• Maintaining of existing modules and components
• Adapting AG-Grid to client's needs
  
  

Full-stack Engineer @ YeahCoach
(Mar 2015 - Jun 2021)

• Segments: Social network, Community hub, Education, Self-development, Mindfullness, Philanthropy
• Technologies used: Next.js, React.js, TypeScript, PHP, SQL, Yii2, Material UI, Vercel, IMGIX, NGINX, Google Cloud, Bitbucket
• Creating multilingual and SEO optimized frontend
• Creating DB & API backend architecture
• Managing dev team and approving their PRs
• Looking after processes and infrastructure
  
  

Full-stack Engineer @ D solutions
(Jun 2011 - Jan 2015)

• Segmnents: E-commerce, Web presentations
• Technologies used: PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery
• Building custom PHP projects using Yii2 framework
• Creating websites using OpenCart or WordPress
• Gathering feedback from customers
  
  

Student @ Czech Technical Univesity
(Jun 2009 - Jan 2012)

• Segments: Web & multimedia
• Technologies used: JAVA, C, PHP, SQL, UML, JavaScript, jQuery
• Building school projects in various languages
  
  

🤖 AI & Agents Development Experience

• Building AI agents and automation pipelines using AI SDK (Vercel)
• Integrating AWS Bedrock for enterprise LLM deployments
• Using Langfuse for LLM observability, tracing and evaluation
• Experienced with Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot for agentic coding workflows

👨‍🏫 Mentoring Experience

• ReactJS Global Mentoring Program @ EPAM Academy (company internal) (2022, 2023)
• Mentoring/On-boarding team mates about ReactJS, CleanCode @ EPAM
• Mentoring team mates about PHP (Yii2) @ YeahCoach
  
  

🏗️ Own Work

• next-bodies - Next.js utility to orchestrate contextual modal routing using multiple page body components.
• next-roots - Next.js utility to generate i18n pages according to custom rewrites rules.
  
  

📒 Writing

• Step-by-step guide for SEO friendly i18n routes in Next.js 13
• Don't use dynamic [lang] segment for your i18n Next.js routes
  
  

📌 On The Side

• Resumable examiner @ Qwik (2022 - 2023)
  Resumable JavaScript framework
• Former contributor @ Blitz.js (Jul 2020 - 2021)
  The Fullstack React Framework
  
  

💬 Languages

• Czech: Native
  
• English: B2+
  
  

👩🏼‍🎓 Courses

• Claude Code Architect @ Anthropic
• React Native @ EPAM Academy (internal)
• React Testing with Jest and Enzyme @ Udemy Academy
• The Complete Guide to Advanced React Component Patterns @ Udemy Academy
• Understanding TypeScript @ Udemy Academy
• Practical Guide To React Native @ Udemy Academy
  
  

🙂 Hobbies

• Fitness, badminton, sport climbing
• Cooking, piano, meditation
• ...and more
  
  

🧰 Toolbox

• Cursor, Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, VS Code, macOS
• Slack, Trello, JIRA
• GitHub, BitBucket, Vercel, DigitalOcean
  
  

Website version: https://svobik7.github.io/svobik7/