Jan Silhan
Python Backend Developer (Django) at Skip Pay- Claim this Profile
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Czech Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Full professional proficiency
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Spanish Elementary proficiency
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Slovak Full professional proficiency
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Jan Beran
I was a people manager of Jan at Red Hat for one year in 2016-2017. He was a team lead of developers who worked on DNF, Linux software management tool. He was an experienced Python developer who grew up rapidly as a leader and who mentored and coached extensively junior people in his team. Jan considered properly customer needs. His structured approach and quick decisions helped to describe and prioritize goals to reflect the needs and deliver critical required features and fixes in time. Jan's strength was an execusion with a focus to achieve objectives rapidly and in a direct way.
Przemysław Kukulski
It was a pleasure to work with Jan. Very responsible and dedicated to deliver commitments. Very fast learner.
Jan Beran
I was a people manager of Jan at Red Hat for one year in 2016-2017. He was a team lead of developers who worked on DNF, Linux software management tool. He was an experienced Python developer who grew up rapidly as a leader and who mentored and coached extensively junior people in his team. Jan considered properly customer needs. His structured approach and quick decisions helped to describe and prioritize goals to reflect the needs and deliver critical required features and fixes in time. Jan's strength was an execusion with a focus to achieve objectives rapidly and in a direct way.
Przemysław Kukulski
It was a pleasure to work with Jan. Very responsible and dedicated to deliver commitments. Very fast learner.
Jan Beran
I was a people manager of Jan at Red Hat for one year in 2016-2017. He was a team lead of developers who worked on DNF, Linux software management tool. He was an experienced Python developer who grew up rapidly as a leader and who mentored and coached extensively junior people in his team. Jan considered properly customer needs. His structured approach and quick decisions helped to describe and prioritize goals to reflect the needs and deliver critical required features and fixes in time. Jan's strength was an execusion with a focus to achieve objectives rapidly and in a direct way.
Przemysław Kukulski
It was a pleasure to work with Jan. Very responsible and dedicated to deliver commitments. Very fast learner.
Jan Beran
I was a people manager of Jan at Red Hat for one year in 2016-2017. He was a team lead of developers who worked on DNF, Linux software management tool. He was an experienced Python developer who grew up rapidly as a leader and who mentored and coached extensively junior people in his team. Jan considered properly customer needs. His structured approach and quick decisions helped to describe and prioritize goals to reflect the needs and deliver critical required features and fixes in time. Jan's strength was an execusion with a focus to achieve objectives rapidly and in a direct way.
Przemysław Kukulski
It was a pleasure to work with Jan. Very responsible and dedicated to deliver commitments. Very fast learner.
Credentials
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PostgreSQL High Performance Tuning Guide
UdemyJan, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
An Entire MBA in 1 Course: Award Winning Business School Prof
UdemyJul, 2017- Nov, 2024 -
Red Hat Project Management Academy
Project Management InstituteJan, 2015- Nov, 2024 -
First Certificate in English (FCE)
Cambridge Assessment EnglishJun, 2011- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Skip Pay
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Czechia
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Python Backend Developer (Django)
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Dec 2018 - Present
* Maintenance of Fintech app (online payments processing, credit scoring, data exports, security issues, REST API, admin view, etc.) * Implemented mechanism to sync credit card payments with database * Designing REST API and maintaining its documentation (Apiary, OpenAPI) * Implemented endpoints to be able to perform card and transaction operations from API * Integrated system with asynchronous tasks (Celery) communicating with 3rd party apps via API calls (Exponea, SAP, AWS SNS, SIA, Mailchimp, Daktela, etc.) Show less
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Motoinsight
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Canada
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Python Full Stack Web Developer (Django)
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Mar 2017 - Dec 2018
* Frontend and Backend implementation of end-to-end online car sales process on automaker's sites (model selection and customization, scheduling test drive, credit application, trade-in appraisal, customer/dealer/admin view) * Integrated system with 3rd party apps via API (Salesforce, Stripe, Canadian Black Book, etc.) * Wrote custom PostgreSQL queries to speed up the requests * Adjusting HTML layout and CSS for different range of mobile and tablet devices * Created microsites and integrated them with Google Tag Manager * Implemented JavaScript interactive widgets for partner sites Show less
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Red Hat
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer
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Aug 2013 - Apr 2017
* Team leader of DNF Software Management development team (since 2015) * Drove change to replace hardly maintainable Yum software package manager with DNF in Fedora 22 * Maintaining Linux software package manager (Python, C), adding compatibility features, improving package dependency resolution and releasing regular upgrades of DNF package management stack * Team leader of DNF Software Management development team (since 2015) * Drove change to replace hardly maintainable Yum software package manager with DNF in Fedora 22 * Maintaining Linux software package manager (Python, C), adding compatibility features, improving package dependency resolution and releasing regular upgrades of DNF package management stack
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Education
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2012 - 2014
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology
Master of Engineering - MEng (Ing.), Intelligent Systems -
2009 - 2012
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - BE (Bc.)
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