2021
Static web presentation of a small farm [professional volunteering] Farma Duběnka in Czech
From the network to the application:
I deploy, troubleshoot and explain complex systems, on-site and remotely.
Static web presentation of a small farm [professional volunteering] Farma Duběnka in Czech
PHP tool that reads status from and configures Cisco network devices over SSH [employee work, IBM]. Tested with 3,000 devices, it cut a 3-day manual job to 3 hours.
Configuration and alert interface for a perimeter security system [employee work, 7 Marsyas Development, now Ronyo Technologies] more at Varya Perimeter Software
Application to execute predefined functions on a deployed PC, similar to remote control of a Windows machine [personal project]
Order management system for a construction company: orders, invoices and offers generated as PDF [contract work]
Pac-Man style game [high school graduation project] picture of the game
Hi! I'm Zdeněk, an engineer based near Ostrava, Czech Republic. Since university I've worked on the edge between computer networks and programming, and I keep using one to solve problems in the other. At IBM I wrote software to configure thousands of Cisco devices. For my own platform, I set up the servers, firewalls and load balancer myself.
I like knowing how things work, all the way down. Give me a new system and I'll learn it, set it up for the people who need it, explain it in plain words, and find out why it breaks when it does.
Took the leap from writing a product to building a company around it. I wrote a voting platform for strata corporations on my own, from the first line of code to the cloud infrastructure, tested it at a friend's strata meeting, and in 2021 co-founded Property Flute Ltd. to bring it to market. More in Featured Projects.
Traced a network loop causing a broadcast storm that had taken down three remote mine sites in northern British Columbia. Flew by helicopter to a mountain-top site to replace the faulty switch and built the recovery plan with senior management, often with no internet to look anything up.
Surveyed Wi-Fi on site at an international tire manufacturer's factories in Europe and India: measured signal, built heat maps, chose the equipment, then configured it and brought it live.
Stepped out from behind the screen and in front of an audience: students at the university in Ostrava, then at Canadian College in Vancouver. Explaining technology to people who don't live in it has been part of my work ever since.
Co-founder & Lead Developer at Property Flute Ltd., Vancouver (remote)
Software Engineer at IUGO Mobile Entertainment, Vancouver
Senior Network Engineer at Rent‑A‑Nerd, Vancouver
Application Support Specialist at Bit Stew Systems, Burnaby;
Cisco Instructor at Canadian College, Vancouver
Tier 2, then Tier 3 Network Engineer at IBM, Brno
Programmer Analyst at 7 Marsyas Development (now Ronyo Technologies), Ostrava
Lecturer in Computer Networks and the Theory of Data Processing (SQL) at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava;
CCNA Instructor at the university's Cisco Networking Academy (2009–2011)
CISCO CCNA Wireless; expired Mar 2022
CISCO CCNP Routing & Switching; expired Apr 2021
CISCO CCNA Routing & Switching; expired Mar 2022
Master's degree in Computer Science and Technology, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Erasmus exchange (winter semester), JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland
Bachelor of Information Technology, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic