Jakub Pavlik

Co-Founder

Prague, Czechia15 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led global SRE and security operations for F5XC platform.
Co-founded Exaforce, tackling complex engineering challenges.
Managed infrastructure across 30+ data centers worldwide.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Infrastructure expert with a focus on DevOps and Security Operations.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsSreCloud ComputingPre-sales

Other Skills

KubernetesSecurity OperationsAWSAzureGCPEdge platformLifecycle ManagementMCPCloud PlatformOpenContrailProject GovernanceOpenStackPrivate Cloud SolutionsIBM TivoliCloud Solutions

About

Jakub Pavlik is co-founder of Exaforce, ex co-founder of tcp cloud (acquired by Mirantis) and ex director of engineering at Volterra (acquired by F5). Exaforce is an early stage startup working on difficult engineering and operations problems faced by security, devops, and SRE teams. Since Volterra acquisition by F5, Jakub is responsible for Devops, SRE and security operations for F5XC platform. F5XC is a multi-tenant SaaS platform that delivers security and application management services for out global customers. Jakub's team operates a global infrastructure of 30+ data-centers and hundreds of applications in AWS, Azure, and GCP. He is responsible for 24x7 SRE and security operations center in Singapore, Prague, and San Jose that delivers managed application security and advanced BOT management service to Global 2000 enterprises.

Experience

15 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Exaforce

Co-founder & Head of Engineering

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Prague, Czechia · On-site

Exaforce is an early stage startup working on difficult engineering and operations problems faced by security, devops, and SRE teams. We are a group of engineers from Google, Palo Alto Networks, F5 and are backed by some of my favorite VC firms - Mayfield, Khosla Ventures, Thomvest, Touring Capital, and Singapore Govt [EDBi].

KubernetesCloud ComputingDevOpsSRESecurity Operations

F5

Sr Director, SRE & Security Operations at F5 SaaS

Jan 2021 – May 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Prague, Czechia

Since Volterra acquisition by F5, I am responsible for Devops, SRE and security operations for F5XC platform. F5XC is a multi-tenant SaaS platform that delivers security and application management services for out global customers. My team operates a global infrastructure of 30+ data-centers and hundreds of applications in AWS, Azure, and GCP. I am responsible for 24x7 SRE and security operations center in Singapore, Prague, and San Jose that delivers managed application security and advanced BOT management service to Global 2000 enterprises.

DevOpsSRESecurity OperationsAWSAzureGCP

Volterra, inc.

Director Of Engineering

Feb 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Acquired by F5 Networks in 2021. Responsible for running SRE and Edge platform LCM components.

SREEdge platformLifecycle Management

Mirantis

Director of Product Engineering

Sep 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Responsible for MCP (Mirantis Cloud Platform) build and delivery.

MCPCloud PlatformCloud Computing

Contrail systems

Member of the Advisory Board

Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs

OpenContrail Advisory Board (OCAB) is comprised of top contributors and stakeholders of the project representing both users and developers. OCAB will provide input to the project leadership team on strategic priorities, community evolution, development roadmap, project governance and operational efficiency. The founding Board members have been selected based on their domain knowledge and their active contributions to the success of OpenContrail to date.

OpenContrailProject Governance

Tcp cloud a.s.

CTO & Co-founder

Feb 2013 – Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Acquired by Mirantis in 2016. Focus to virtual private cloud and private cloud solutions based on OpenStack and vendors derivates, like IBM SmartCloud, Mirantis OpenStack or RedHat OpenStack. Technical responsibility for whole infrastructure solution (architecture, implementation, operation).

OpenStackPrivate Cloud SolutionsCloud Computing

Ibm

Pre-Sale, IT specialist Tivoli Netcool&SmartCloud

Jun 2010 – Mar 2014 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Pre-Sales and Software IT specialist for IBM Tivoli Netcool&SmartCloud portfolio
(ITNM, ITNCM, OMNIBus, Monitoring, Cloud, SmartCloud Provisioning&Orchestrator, TSAM). Solution
design, Pot & PoC prepartion, Customer presentation, SoW, Implementation etc.

IBM TivoliPre-SalesCloud SolutionsPre-sales