Ondrej
Slama

I build, improve, and maintain web applications that are meant to last — reliability and craft from day one through year five.

7+
YEARS
40k+
USERS
12+
PROJECTS
3
TEAMS
terminal
~ $ whoami
ondrej_slama — software engineer
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building reliable web applications
~ $ echo $STATUS
open to new projects ✓
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STATUS
open to work
EXPERIENCE
7 years
LOCATION
remote • nyc
TIMEZONE
UTC-5

Building reliable software is a long game.

I'm a software engineer with 7 years of experience building and maintaining web applications across the full stack. My work spans product features, internal platforms, and developer tooling — with a consistent focus on writing code that's easy to understand, extend, and operate over time.

I take maintenance seriously. Too often, software is built for the demo and not for the three years that follow. I care about observability, clean abstractions, documented decisions, and sustainable technical debt management.

Outside of work, I contribute to open-source projects, write occasionally about engineering trade-offs, and find deep satisfaction in understanding systems at a level most don't need to bother with.

Technologies

Projects

all projects ↗

Where
I've worked

Jan 2022 — Present

Senior Software Engineer

Meridian Software

Lead development and long-term maintenance of a customer-facing SaaS platform serving 40k+ users. Introduced observability standards, reduced p95 API latency by 60%, and established a component library adopted across three product teams.

Jun 2019 — Dec 2021

Software Engineer

Orbit Labs

Built and shipped product features for a B2B analytics platform. Owned backend data pipeline improvements that cut processing time by 40% and led the frontend migration from Angular to React.

Aug 2017 — May 2019

Junior Software Engineer

Foundry Digital

Developed client websites and internal tooling across the full stack — from database schema design to responsive UI implementation — in a small, fast-moving team.

Let's build
something that
lasts.

Open to full-time roles, contract work, and interesting projects. If you care about quality and long-term maintainability, we should talk.