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Roman Zydyk

Data Tech Lead @ Quantlane · Prague

I build data platforms: Python pipelines, Airflow, a lakehouse on AWS, Kubernetes. Seven years on the path from BI and analytics to data engineering, now leading a data team that serves a trading company.

Experience

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rolecompanyyears
Data Tech LeadQuantlane2023–now
Data EngineerQuantlane2022–2023
Data ConsultantPwC Czech Republic2020–2023
Data AnalystPwC Czech Republic2019–2020

4 rows · full history on LinkedIn →

Expertise

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data engineering
PythonAirflowpandasPolarsArrow / ParquetApache Icebergasyncio
databases
SQLPostgreSQLTimescaleDBClickHouseSQLAlchemy
cloud & infra
AWSAzureKubernetesDockerGitLab CIPrometheusGrafana
bi & analytics
MetabasePower BITableauGoodDataAlteryx
leading
hiring & onboardingcode reviewarchitectureteaching

Selected work

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projectwhat
Live Czech election resultsReal-time results app for the 2021, 2023 and 2025 elections. Python backend, Postgres, Streamlit, on Azure.
Python Code QualityOnline course (Czech): typing, testing, profiling, security, CI/CD, Rust and Cython extensions.
Azure cloud basicsOnline course: cloud concepts and a tour of Azure services, with hands-on portal work.
S3 web browserFlask app to browse S3 buckets and share files through temporary links.
Table tennis predictionScraped match data and a distributed Keras model on PySpark to predict game results.
Bazos MacBook finderWatches a Czech classifieds site and alerts on good MacBook deals.

Contact

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Open to talking about data engineering roles, consulting and data platform projects.