Michal Gondar

Skills

• Problem solving
• Scaling teams in fast-growing companies
• Team and product management, building and empowering remote teams
• Complex application development. Designing and building system architecture

Experience

Mews

Director of Engineering

• Mews is a hospitality unicorn providing hotel management software
• I am leading Mews POS tribe

Jun 2023 → present, UK & Remote

Arithmix

Head of Engineering

• Brought in to improve and scale-up the engineering team
• The company did not manage to raise future funding

Jan 2023 → May 2023 • 5 mos, London UK & Remote

Paddle

Director of Engineering

• Paddle is a SAAS fintech unicorn providing a complete payment, tax, invoicing and subscription solution
• Member of the company-wide extended leadership
• Designing and influencing tech/company-wide processes like hiring, onboarding, and career development
• I managed 6 cross-functional product teams covering all products developed at Paddle
• Scaling rapidly growing organisation: doubling P&E department and implementing new processes
• Serving B2B SMB and enterprise customers
• Managed teams and processes through the merger and acquisition of ProfitWell
• Hired, managed and led the team that implemented Paddle's iOS In-App Purchase solution

Feb 2021 → Dec 2022 • 1 yr 11 mos, London UK & Remote

HawkFlow

Co-founder and Advisor

• AI-powered monitoring

Jan 2021 → present, London UK & Remote

Zákon & Pořádek s.r.o.

Technical co-founder and CTO/CPO

• Acted as a technical and product leader, also responsible for R&D
• Involved in all aspects of the business including marketing, sales, customer support
• Built and scaled a SaaS company into an industry leader in a newly created market
• Designed and developed core system architecture focused on collecting, processing and monitoring data
• Assembled, mentored and managed a fully remote team

Jul 2013 → Dec 2020 • 7 yrs 6 mos, Prague Czechia & Remote

Musstard

Technical co-founder and CTO

• Developed a business plan, actively participate in fundraising, conduct technical interviews
• Developed e-commerce retail platform based on Magento for fashion start-up
• Implemented custom Magento extensions and modifications to fulfill business needs (multiple warehouse functionality, ajax shopping cart, gift vouchers based on custom rules)
• Designed and maintained infrastructure running on AWS
• Technologies: Magento, Varnish cache, Solr search, Apache, MySQL

Nov 2011 → Jul 2013 • 1 yr 9 mos, Sydney Australia

AOL / GoViral

Senior → Principal Software Engineer

• Developed HTML5 video player for Goviral video advertising platform
• Introduced BDD methodology
• Worked as a member of the core engineering team developing features for internal systems
• Integral part of the Goviral start-up culture prior to its acquisition by AOL

Jun 2011 → Feb 2012 • 9 mos, London UK

Live Nation Entertainment / Ticketmaster

Lead Frontend Engineer

• Lead Frontend Engineer for www.livenation.co.uk and its 17 additional language mutations
• Redesigning Ticketmaster checkout system
• Worked as part of agile development team
• Implemented facebook XFBML
• Prototyped the first ever mobile application for LiveNation festivals

Feb 2009 → May 2011 • 2 yrs 3 mos, London UK

Projects