Vojta Hordějčuk
Verified Expert in Engineering
Computer Science Developer
Prague, Czech Republic
Toptal member since November 20, 2023
Vojta is a seasoned full-stack developer with experience working on various platforms, including Amazon and Binance. His expertise ranges from working for small startups to big corporate companies. He is a customer-focused engineer who gets things done. Vojta likes to seek his inspiration outside the computer science field and is often acknowledged for thinking outside the box.
Portfolio
Experience
- SQL - 18 years
- Java - 16 years
- Computer Science - 16 years
- Microservices - 11 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 8 years
- AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) - 5 years
- TypeScript - 5 years
- JavaScript - 5 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Linux, Eclipse IDE, NetBeans, Microservices
The most amazing...
...library I've created is the CDK monitoring constructs, which was adopted by thousands of projects at Amazon and published as open-source.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Binance
- Finished and launched the Binance Tax tool worldwide, extending country coverage.
- Designed and implemented on-demand transaction import for new users.
- Led the UI development, performance optimization, code cleanup, improving mobile support, and fixing bugs.
- Developed monthly and yearly financial statements, as required by various regulators, using our central transaction storage.
Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE3)
Amazon.com
- Acted as a tech lead for teams of up to seven developers. I was liable for the team tech stack, code quality, architecture, work arrangement, delivery, and tracking.
- Acquired a granted US Patent No. 10,268,711, entitled "Identifying and resolving data quality issues amongst information stored across multiple data sources."
- Achieved two Fischer Awards for solving a complex problem in a simple way. Obtained the Omotenashi Award for exemplary away-team work. I have won worldwide IC tech hackathons with teams and was the finalist of the SCOT Grand Challenge.
- Developed multiple projects, ranging from simple internal tools to distributed workflow systems used by thousands of sellers daily.
- Participated actively in interviews conducted over 450 phone calls, on-site, and in-person and virtual assessments. Taught an interviewing course with over 2,000 students.
- Authored a popular CDK monitoring library, now open-sourced.
Senior Software Engineer
GoodData
- Developed RESTful web services in Java, thoroughly tested with various tools.
- Maintained performance testing suite written in Scala, using the Gatling load-testing framework.
- Worked on a tool that generated documentation from code.
Java Software Engineer
Ceska Sporitelna
- Laid foundations and developed a modular Open Service Gateway initiative (OSGi)-based pricing solution still used for pricing many products within the bank. It contained import/export jobs, a product catalog, and a pricing engine.
- Maintained a multithread stream, processing large data sets with ILOG Business Rules Management System (BRMS) rules, running daily in a modular OSGi environment for the Erste Group.
- Developed a proof of concept for the first cloud-based web apps and a simple authentication system.
Java Software Engineer
inSophy
- Produced the advanced planning system (APS), computing the best possible plan of production for individual workplaces using smart algorithms. Participated in designing analytical tools, server parts, and UI.
- Created a modular framework for the creation and composition of performance dashboards.
- Developed an online retrospective bibliography about the Czech literal sciences with ÚČL, part of the Czech Academy of Sciences. We created a database of almost two million documents, or over 1.2 TiB, containing scanned card images.
Experience
Selexor
This system is a robust workflow orchestrator integrated with key internal services, providing a user-friendly UI that helps sellers trigger expansion and observe progress.
This tool allows sellers to extend their customer base and simplifies bootstrapping of new markets by copying offers from more mature marketplaces.
Monitoring Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Constructs
https://github.com/cdklabs/cdk-monitoring-constructsUsing this library can save several person-days per app and increase operational excellence. The alarms provided are inspired by big tech best practices and real production incidents.
By 2023, the library had been used by at least 6,000 internal projects and had over 250 stars on GitHub.
Custom Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for ZOD-DVO
More than five office workers have used the product for over ten years.
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science and Electronics
Czech Technical University - Prague, Czechia
Progress Toward a Master's Degree in Computer Science
Munster Technological University - Cork, Ireland
Certifications
OMG-Certified UML Professional—Fundamental
OMG
Java Standard Edition 6 Programmer Certified Professional
Oracle
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Apache Lucene, Node.js, JAX-WS, JSII
Tools
IntelliJ IDEA, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), AWS CloudFormation, Gatling Load Testing, AWS Step Functions, AWS Fargate, GitHub, Eclipse IDE
Languages
Java, TypeScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Kotlin, Bash, PHP, UML, Scala
Frameworks
JUnit, Spring, Google Guice, Mockito, Swing, Jakarta Server Pages (JSP), Apache Wicket, JSF, PrimeFaces, OSGi, JPA, Cypress, Tailwind CSS
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Linux, StarRocks, NetBeans
Paradigms
Microservices, Clean Code, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, H2 Database, CouchDB, Oracle SQL, Microsoft SQL Server
Other
Back-end, Computer Science, Software Architecture, Interviewing, Architecture, IBM Rule Languages, Amazon RDS, Technical Leadership
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