Mihai Kucera

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Senior Engineering Manager, Parkway Group - CI/CD · service mesh · Backstage

Parkway Group
Prague, Czechia · CET (UTC+1)
13+ years experience
École Polytechnique
English, Czech
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Overview

Currently at Parkway Group, where I lead platform engineering with a team of 55. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 40 minutes to under 4. Kannada theatre fan.

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Skills
BackstageGoCI/CDservice meshobservability

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jul 2023 - Present
    Parkway Group · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Prague, Czechia
    • Grew the developer platform team from 3 to 37 engineers.
    • Built the experimentation framework 9 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 6.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Feb 2020 - May 2023
    Volvo Cars · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Prague, Czechia
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 556ms to 149ms.
  3. Platform Engineer
    May 2018 - Feb 2020
    N26 · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Prague, Czechia
    • Shipped 11 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 45% in two quarters.
  4. Platform Engineer
    Apr 2016 - May 2018
    Santander · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Prague, Czechia
    • Wrote the Backstage service that now handles 83 million requests a day.
    • Moved 79% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Senior Platform Engineer
    Feb 2014 - Apr 2016
    Spotify · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Prague, Czechia
    • Led the migration of 52 services to CI/CD.
    • Grew the developer platform team from 5 to 39 engineers.

Projects

Write-up: platform engineering in practice
2022

A long-form guide to platform engineering for people starting out.

Conference talk: lessons from developer platform
2022

What went wrong and what worked while scaling platform engineering.

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Education

  1. École Polytechnique
    Ingénieur, Mathematics
    2006 - 2010

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