Rastislav Kanocz
Strategic Advisor & Co-owner at profiq
Rastislav Kanocz
Strategic Advisor & Co-owner at profiq
Ostrava Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner & Co-Founder
2021 - Current
As a General Partner in our micro VC firm, I lead our investment strategy, identify promising startups, provide strategic guidance, and actively nurture portfolio companies to fuel innovation and drive successful exits within our focused investment scope. We partner with passionate founders and invest in an innovative early stage deep tech software such as Software frameworks, AI components, Developer tools, Server side applications and Crypto technologies.
Strategic Advisor & Co-owner
2023
As a strategic advisor, I leverage my deep software industry knowledge, technical expertise and experience to support the company in bringing software tech innovations to life.
Co-Founder & COO
2022 - 2023
Supervising profiq’s daily business operations, leading key business areas such as recruitment, and advising and supporting implementation of company-wide strategies
Co-Founder & CTO
2010 - 2022
Technical leadership of profiq, management of company's growth and advisory on profiq's customer projects. The company became a trusted partner in the field of software engineering and quality to many clients.
Technical and Test Lead
2010 - 2010
* After Sun Microsystems acquisition lead the team of 7 test engineers for Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware integrated software stack as well as Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS) * Define test strategies, test plans for Oracle's Enterprise Deployment Guides (CRM, Multi-Tenancy, SOA, Identity Manager). * Responsible for deploying a complete Multi-tenancy topology, troubleshooting integration issues on multi-node environment and communication with stakeholders and other test teams worldwide. Technologies and tools: Oracle RAC database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Fusion Application stack, Operating Systems (Solaris, Linux)
Tech Lead, Java ES and GlassFish Portfolio
2009 - 2010
Technical Lead for the Sun Java Enterprise System (Java ES) and GlassFish Portfolio releases -- consolidated Suites of a Sun's middleware products developed by engineering teams around the world and released on common schedule following common set of system-level requirements. Define and drive strategy for the Java ES and GlassFish Portfolio releases, review, communicate and help implementing Java ES specifications in collaboration with Java ES Architects, Release Engineering, Java ES Product lead, Java ES QA teams and Tech leads of individual Products included in the Suites and support presention of results and milestone reviews to Product Approval comittee (PAC).
Project Lead, Java ES Reference Architectures
2008 - 2010
* lead cross-organizational improvement project for Sun Java ES Reference Architectures within Java ES Engineering https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19528-01/820-2195/afxap/index.html * architect, design and implement Architectures to enable customers to deploy proven technology solutions with a minimum of design time and implementation difficulty. * lead delivery and co-author of Technical White Paper for GlassFish ESB High Availability Reference Architecture https://topslide.net/document/high-availability-and-clustering-glassfish-enterprise-service-bus-esb-white-paper-december-authors-mike-somekh-mark-foster-rastislav-kanocz * Designed and developed Reference Configurations for Web Services and Web Application Security using Java CAPS and GlassFish ESB integrated with Java ES
Tech Lead, Java System Compatibility QA Team
2006 - 2010
* leading or led testing teams within Sun Java Enterprise System (Java ES) QA organization (Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) Interoperability Testing team, Java ES Upgrade and Compatibility Testing team) * ensure and drive the quality of interoperability for various Product releases (Java ES 7, 6, 5 Update 1 and 5; GlassFish ESB v2.2 and v2.1; Java CAPS 6.2, 6 U1 and 6.0; GlassFish v2) * Applied and Integrated Advanced Testing methods (like All pairs, Class of Equivalence) into System level testing that reduced significantly Test Cycle time and hardware needs for testing. * Lead a team of up to 8 quality engineers
Software Engineer, Java System Compatibility QA Team
2004 - 2006
* drive Compatibility Testing within the Java ES System Test team for 2 releases of middleware Product Sun Java Enterprise System (Java ES) (versions 2005Q4, 2005Q1) assuring Compatibility among different versions of Products included in Sun Java Enterprise System. * acting as a Team Lead of Compatibility team of 4 people, covering Test Planing, Test Execution and Results Reporting. * Led multiple projects and improvements within the team like analysis of All dependencies between Product Components of Java ES, Deployment Architectures preparation and Testing Process optimization and improvements which led to significant Test Cycle time reduction
Far EasTone telco project
2003 - 2004
* Testing and ongoing support of Amdocs Enabler billing product (to support convergent prepaid-postpaid and voice-data operations) and Amdocs PRM (Partner Relationship Management) * Detailed Test Design and Implementation, Test Execution * Lab Integration, Long Duration and Stress Testing with IN providers (Alcatel) for real-time session control of voice and SMS services. * Developing client testing applications, Automated tests to test Java Applications, Performance and API test * On-site 1st level support in User Acceptance Test * On-site (Taipei, Taiwan) ongoing customer support, troubleshooting integration issues and supporting systems migration and upgrade Key Tools and Technologies: * Performance and API testing using Java, JUnit, Ant, TCL/TK, Test Director, Eclipse, shell scripting * Amdocs Enabler, ClarifyCRM, BEA Weblogic, Tuxedo, EJB, JRun, Times Ten, Top Link * Operating systems - HP-UX, Windows 2000 Professional
PT Excelcomindo Pratama (excelcom) telco project
2002 - 2003
* Testing and ongoing support of Prepaid-Postpaid Amdocs (Enabler) CRM and Billing solutions * Detailed Test Design and Implementation, Test Execution * Automated test environment implementation and preparation * Lab Integration, Long Duration and Stress Testing of real-time interaction with eServGlobal’s IN SCP (Service Control Point) in New Zealand for real-time session control of voice and SMS services. * Developing client testing applications, Automated tests to test Java Applications, Performance and API tests * Preparation of High Availability Test plan, production environment, design and implementation of integration testing * Presentations and live demos of the HA system to the customer managing final stages of product development in terms of fixes and patch deliveries to customer site * On-site (Jakarta, Indonesia) 1st level support in User Acceptance Test * On-site ongoing customer support, troubleshooting integration issues and supporting systems migration and upgrade * Implementation of postpaid Billing process maps * Part of the Project (Excelcom Indonesia) which was awarded by “Billing World 2003 Best New Product Award” (http://www.cramer.com/News/Pages/Amdocs-Enabler-Wins-2003-Best-New-Billing-Product-Award.aspx) Key Tools and Technologies: * Performance and API testing using Java, JUnit, Ant, TCL/TK, Test Director, Precise for Oracle, Eclipse, shell scripting * Amdocs Enabler, ClarifyCRM, BEA Weblogic, Tuxedo, EJB, JRun, Times Ten, Top Link, Maestro * Operating systems - Solaris, Windows 2000 Professional
Test Engineer, Amdocs Bill Formatter product
2001 - 2002
* Test requirements analysis, detailed Test Design, Implementation and Test Execution * Managing Testing Lifecycle via Mercury Interactive tool Test Director * Large Regression Test Suites automation using WinRunner and Load Runner tools * Test Environments preparation Tools: * WinRunner, LoadRunner, Test Director tools, shell scripting * Operating systems - Solaris, HP-UX, MainFrame, Windows 2000 Professional
Western Wireless telco project
2001 - 2001
* Test Analysis, Test design and E2E Test Execution for Ensemble End-to-End Customer Care and Billing Solution * Managing Testing Lifecycle via Mercury Interactive tool Test Director Tools: * Test Director tools, shell scripting * Operating systems - Solaris, Windows NT
MCI Worldcom telco project
2001 - 2001
* Test Analysis for Long Distance calls features for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) * Analysis of customer requirements and functional specifications to develop Test requirements and Test Scenarios * On-site (Stamford, CT, USA) Training and support Managing Testing Lifecycle via Mercury Interactive tool Test Director
NEXTEL telco project
2000 - 2001
Tel Aviv (Israel), Champaign, IL (USA) * On-site Test Analysis for Push to talk features including for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) * Analysis of customer requirements and functional specifications to develop Test requirements and Test Scenarios * Managing Testing Lifecycle via Mercury Interactive tool Test Director
Software Engineer
2000 - 2000
Intense Telco, Billing, UNIX, SQL, Java training, Testing and QA certification
System manager
2000 - 2000
Design, configuration and implementation of computer network including operating system installations for Adotel-HEX Company