Ivan Vavrek

Senior Engineering Manager @ Staffbase

About

With over 5 years in leadership roles, my core expertise lies in orchestrating collaborative efforts to drive strategic projects to fruition at Stratify Technologies. My approach integrates project planning and people management to align with our mission of enhancing FP&A processes. By fostering a culture of innovation and operational excellence, I contribute to a diverse and dynamic team, ensuring our values resonate across every aspect of our work.

Country

Czechia

City

Prague

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Team Performance, Engineering, Team Management, DevOps, Engineering Leadership, Technical Leadership, Cloud Infrastructure, Mobile Applications, Solution Architecture, Spring Framework, Engineering Management, React Native, Freelancing, Communication, People Management, Project Planning, Team Leadership, Coaching, Hiring, Software Testing

Experience

Senior Engineering Manager

Staffbase

2025-9 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Prague, Czechia

Senior Engineering Manager

NiteOwl LLC

2024-10 - 2025-5 · 8 mos

Working on small startup project, building mobile application on MvP stage. Taking care of product and project management and testing as well as release management

Software Engineering Manager

Stratify

2022-2 - 2024-8 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Working on collaborative FP&A SaaS to make company finance planning process great. - Leading 2 teams of experienced engineers - backend and frontend team - Drive strategic projects from begining to the end across organisation - Contribute to strategic feature planning - Transform product spec to executable technical specifcation - Contribute to technical decisions - Manage deliverirable, monitor team progress and report to stakeholders

Engineering Manager

Pure Storage

2021-8 - 2022-1 · 6 mos

Prague, Czechia

Lead FlashArray File team, working closely with product team as well as other engineering teams to deliver new features on File. Implemented Agile methodologies and ensured their adoption within the new team.

Development Manager

SAP Concur

2019-4 - 2021-7 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

- managing team of skilled SRE engineers - Contribute to delivery pipeline of Mobile and Web application - Build infrastructure for Mobile app build and test - Build deployment pipeline for Web application - Work closely with other teams accross organisation

Manager, Mobile QE

SAP Concur

2018-11 - 2019-4 · 6 mos

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Software Design Engineer Lead

SAP Concur

2017-3 - 2018-10 · 1 yr 8 mos

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Managing mobile test automation development across company. Working with QE team on implementation of mobile automation to reduce manual testing. Collaborating with development teams on CI process and integration automation into this process.

Software Design Engineer / Test

SAP Concur

2012-8 - 2017-3 · 4 yrs 8 mos

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

-3/2015 implementing and maintaining multi-platform mobile UI automation framework based on appium(Selenium). Also working on automated API testing. Both activities are part of continues integration process. -2/2013 Moved to Mobile team, but still working on executions Creating mobile UI automation tests. Main challenges of this project: prepare tests for mobile automation, test framework funcionality, define new processes for automation, solve technical problems. - 8/2012 Automation Execution team: Running tests, failures investigation, tracking issues (JIRA), updating tests. Working closely with webservice and mobile team on tests.

Test analyst

Trask

2011-5 - 2012-8 · 1 yr 4 mos

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Testing and analysing integration platform, developing tools for automatization test analysies(JAVA). Supporting client SIT testers

Test Analyst/Tester

Trask

2011-5 - 2012-7 · 1 yr 3 mos

Tester

Komerční banka

2012-3 - 2012-5 · 3 mos

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Testing new redesigned Internet banking

Test analyst / Tester

Raiffeisenbank Česká republika

2011-5 - 2012-2 · 10 mos

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Test analysis and test execution of Trask integration platform based on IBM WebSphere, MQ and TIF at project Everest. Supporting SIT testers from bank.