Michal Šváb

January 2024 - Present     Remote

• Lead Payroll Connect team within Deel's Global Payroll vertical.
• Manage a team of 5-8 engineers and QA across delivery, architecture, hiring, and incidents.
• Led the team's shift to AI-assisted development, improving delivery speed and incident resolution through agent-based workflows.
• Built core enterprise payroll workflows and supported migration of acquired-company clients.
• Built payroll software integration with a complex customizable data mapping layer.
• Grew Payroll Connect from the ground up to 250 client companies.
• Hired and mentored several engineers.

July 2018 - September 2023     Remote

• Led engineering for a legal matter management platform that enabled clients to compare quotes from multiple law firms and improve legal matter outcomes.
• Managed a team of 5 engineers, hiring part of the team and leading planning, 1:1s, and performance reviews.
• Owned backend, infrastructure, security, ISO 27001 compliance, and delivery of product features.
• Shipped core workflows for legal matter intake, law-firm quote comparison, matter tracking, and client reporting.
• Automated AWS infrastructure with Terraform and kept infrastructure costs aligned with the company's stage through regular cost reviews.
• Maintained strong platform reliability, with downtime typically limited to a single planned database upgrade each year.
• Ran audits, controls, and remediation for ISO 27001.

September 2016 - July 2018     Remote

• Built an e-commerce payment platform that enabled online stores to accept customer payments more easily.
• Took ownership of backend services after the CTO's departure, moving from senior IC into technical leadership.
• Consolidated fragmented services and reduced cloud costs by simplifying the microservice architecture.
• Built a payment state machine using event sourcing and CQRS patterns.
• Created deployment automation with Docker, Ansible, Bamboo, Terraform, and Azure.

February 2015 - March 2016     London, UK

• Built a Google Ads analytics and competitor-intelligence platform that helped companies evaluate ROI on advertising spend and identify successful campaigns.
• Built and operated backend services, scrapers, and data-processing pipelines.
• Improved scraper stability and materially reduced infrastructure costs by moving .NET scrapers from Windows servers to a Linux runtime.
• Contributed to large-scale data collection and processing systems using Apache Spark, Storm, and RabbitMQ.
• Worked on front-end reporting and data visualisation using Backbone and ES6.

July 2013 - August 2014     London, UK

• Built a Java-based CMS for serving device-appropriate image assets across digital gaming products.
• Developed JavaScript showcase applications and worked in a TDD-focused delivery environment.

April 2011 - June 2013     London, UK

• Built a Java-based portal for managing employee benefits and pension products.
• Rewrote a legacy messaging platform using Apache Camel and ActiveMQ to improve maintainability and integration reliability.

September 2008 - February 2011     Brno, CZ

• Built e-commerce web applications using Spring, Hibernate, and JavaScript.
• Improved application and database performance through profiling, caching, and targeted optimisation.

2006 - 2009     Brno University of Technology, CZ

BSc equivalent