CV – Denis Vojtuk

Key Strengths

Product development & deliveryCustomer-facing softwareEngineering leadershipTeam building & scalingZero-to-production deliveryCross-functional collaborationStakeholder alignmentTechnical architectureEngineering culture

Skills

Technical

Product development with Go, modern architectures, and cloud technologies

Languages & Frameworks: Go (primary), JavaScript/TypeScript, Bash; building scalable backend services and APIs.
Product Development: End-to-end feature delivery, API design, microservices architecture, event-driven systems.
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, GCP; Kubernetes, Docker; infrastructure as enabler for product delivery.
Data & Integration: MySQL/Galera, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ; designing data models and integration patterns.
Quality & Delivery: CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), automated testing, observability (Prometheus, Grafana).
Security: Secure coding practices, authentication/authorization, data protection.

Leadership & Ways of Working

Hybrid IC/manager: owns architecture while managing 16+ engineers.
Builds teams around autonomy, clear ownership, and technical standards.
Effective at building autonomous product teams in both startups and large organizations.
Values lean process with pragmatic compliance over bureaucracy.

Target Roles

Senior Engineering Manager – Product Development
Director of Engineering – Product & Technology
VP of Engineering – Product-Focused Organizations

Education

Kurgan State University

2001 – 2006

Master’s, Software for Computers and Automated Systems

Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Science

2008 – 2011

Master’s, Economics and Company Management (Telecommunications)

Languages

English – Full professional
Czech – Full professional
Russian – Native

Work Preferences

Remote or hybrid in Prague; relocation considered for significant career-boosting roles (e.g., Director/Head of Platform).
Clear ownership and responsibility boundaries; high trust; lean process with pragmatic compliance.
Avoids heavy micromanagement and process for process’s sake.

Profile

Engineering leader with 15+ years building customer-facing software products and scaling engineering teams. I lead cross-functional teams that deliver business value to end users — from enterprise software to e-commerce platforms.

I combine hands-on technical leadership with people management: architecting solutions in Go, driving product delivery, and coaching 16+ engineers. My focus is on building autonomous teams that ship quality software to customers, not just internal tools. I’ve grown engineering organizations, established development culture, and delivered features that directly solve customer problems.

Experience

Senior Engineering Manager - Hands-on

Veeam Software · Prague · Apr 2025 – Present

Enterprise backup & disaster recovery software for business customers

Lead two cross-functional product teams (~16 engineers) delivering customer-facing features for enterprise data protection software.
Own end-to-end delivery of major product initiatives from customer requirements through production release, coordinating across multiple teams.
Delivered KubeVirt support feature from concept to customer hands, enabling protection of virtualized workloads — directly addressing customer pain points and expanding market reach.
Scaled EU engineering organization from seed team to 20+ engineers: recruited talent, built team structure, established career development frameworks.
Established engineering standards, code review culture, and quality practices across teams to ensure consistent product delivery.
Partner with Product Management on roadmap planning; represent engineering at customer events and conferences (KubeCon, WeAreDevelopers).

R&D Team Lead

Veeam Software · Prague · Nov 2021 – Apr 2025

Led product development team of 8 engineers delivering customer-facing features for enterprise backup software.
Owned end-to-end delivery of product features — from customer requirements and design through implementation, testing, and production release.
Built engineering culture through coding standards, code review practices, and hands-on technical mentoring.
Collaborated with Product Management to shape product backlog, translating customer needs into deliverable features.

Founding Software Engineer (Backend)

Codership (Galera Cluster) · Remote · Jan 2019 – Nov 2021

Early engineer building Galera Manager – an on-premise management and monitoring tool for database clusters used by enterprise customers.
Designed and implemented backend services in Go, delivering features from API design through production deployment.
Participated in hiring and onboarding of engineering team members.

Head of Development / Senior Engineer

Feedo® · Prague · 2016 – 2019

Led engineering team of up to 9 developers building e-commerce platform serving end consumers.
Drove product development from requirements through delivery; modernized architecture from monolith to microservices to improve development velocity and user experience.
Established engineering practices: CI/CD pipelines, code quality standards, security practices, and monitoring.

Advisory Work

Technical Advisor / Consultant

NJQ & Associates · Remote · Sep 2012 – Present (12+ years, part-time)

Designed and built a custom CRM platform for IP industry clients from scratch, evolving it into a core business system.
Led a small distributed engineering team, defined long-term architecture, and guided the platform through multiple iterations.
Owned development and production environments, CI/CD, and code quality processes; act as ongoing technical advisor.

External Consultant (Part-time)

Feedo® · Prague · 2019 – 2020

Ongoing consultancy after leaving full-time role.
Technology choice advice, infrastructure optimization (performance and cost), and small programming tasks.

Personal Projects & Open Source

Developed network analysis and monitoring tools: TCP/IP protocol analysis, packet inspection, and traffic pattern recognition for defensive security purposes.
Author of prometheus-metrics-bundle (Symfony) with 3.5M+ installations and 170+ GitHub stars — widely adopted observability library.
Created and maintain error handling libraries and linters (Go) used in production by multiple teams (errx, nolintguard, collaborator in revive).
Contribute to CNCF projects (Kanister) and open source (go-extras, kopia, others).
Recognized as an Arctic Code Vault Contributor with achievements such as Pull Shark and Starstruck.