Petr Svihlik
VP of Engineering, Kentico | Cloud Transformation, Developer Experience, Engineering Leadership
Petr Švihlík leads engineering at Kentico, driving the cloud transformation, technical direction, and engineering culture that underpin Xperience by Kentico's position as a developer and marketer friendly digital experience platform.
His relationship with Kentico spans nearly two decades. He joined in 2007 as a software engineer, progressed through engineering leadership roles, left to join Microsoft where he worked on Azure Communication Services, and then came back. That detail matters. Choosing to return to a company after working at Microsoft is not a small thing, and it says something specific about what Kentico is like to build at. At Kentico, Petr has been instrumental in shaping the platform's .NET architecture, cloud infrastructure, open-source initiatives, and developer experience, the layer of the product that determines whether engineers actually enjoy working with it or merely tolerate it. That focus on developer experience is not incidental to the engineering leadership role: it is increasingly the factor that determines whether a platform attracts the kind of ecosystem that sustains long-term growth. Petr writes and speaks on developer experience, API design, and engineering leadership, contributing to the wider technical community beyond Kentico's immediate orbit.
Areas of expertise: Cloud transformation, engineering leadership, developer experience, .NET, cloud architecture, API design, agile methodologies, open-source, DevRel, engineering culture and mentorship
Background: VP of Engineering, Kentico (originally joined 2007) | Azure Communication Services, Microsoft | Speaker and contributor on developer experience and engineering leadership