Mentors
Jan Pich
- About Jan: Jan got his Master’s degree in Security Technologies,
Systems and Management from the Tomas Bata University in Zlín. After
graduation, he worked as a Cyber Security specialist in the energy sector. Then
he led Cyber Security, Monitoring and Architecture teams in an international
finance group for 5 years. Since 2022 he is working at EY as a Cyber Security
Manager – his team specializes in cyber security governance, penetration
testing and development of defense detection strategy.
- Company: EY
- Degree: Security Technologies,
Systems and Management
- Candidate Requirements: student of 4th/5th year
(Master studies), also suitable for PhD students
- Area of interest:
Information Security, Managerial Informatics, Computer Engineering, Networking,
Cyber Security, Informatics, Software Engineering
- Application process: a CV and a letter of motivation, one-on-one interview
- Meeting frequency:
at minimum once every two months, at least six meetings in a year, ideally once a month except summer vacation
- Language options: Czech, Slovak,
English
Daniel Matteoni
- About Daniel: Daniel studied computer science at the Faculty of
Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, and got his MBA at the University
of Business and Management in Prague. He has experience with software
development in IT (Adastra, Logica, DHL IT Services) and in financial companies
(Commerzbank and Česká pojišťovna insurance company). Since 2018, he has
worked at Barclays as a Vice President - Development Team Lead. Daniel has more
than 10 years of experience with agile methods development
(Scrum).
- Company: Barclays
- Degree: Computer
Science
- Candidate requirements: Postgraduate or PhD
student
- Areas of interest: computer science, agile software projects and
their management, software development in the finance sector
- Application
process: a CV and a letter of motivation, one-on-one interview
- Meeting
frequency: at minimum once every two months, at least six meetings in a year,
ideally once a month except summer vacation
- Language options: Czech,
English, Polish
Tomáš Němeček
- About Tomáš: Tomáš studied financial and insurance mathematics at
the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, then continued to
study statistics, game theory and economics at Humboldt University in Berlin.
For 8 years, he has worked as a chief analyst for a consulting company focusing
on finance and risk management. In 2011, he started working at EY and currently
acts as an Partner in the Financial Services Risk Management Department. His
team concentrates on credit and operation risk modelling and related regulatory
questions.
- Company: EY
- Degree: Econometrics, Statistics,
Applied Mathematics
- Candidate requirements: Postgraduate student or PhD
student, Undergraduate students in their final year can also apply
- Area
of interest: credit risk modelling and loan loss provisioning
- Maximum
number of mentees: 1
- Application process: a CV and a letter of
motivation, one-on-one interview
- Meeting frequency: at minimum once
every two months (preferably once a month), at least six times per year except
summer vacation
- Language options: Czech, Slovak, English
Petr Novák
- About Petr: Petr
studied software systems at our faculty, afterwards worked in a company
producing NVR (Network Video Recorders) for IP cameras. In 2015, he went to
Seznam.cz to work on its compasion shopping website Zbozi.cz. Now he works as
Development Lead of E-commerce Division, which includes the emerging shopping
platform.
- Company: Seznam.cz
- Degree: Computer science,
Software engineering
- Candidates requirements: student of his/her master
study
- Areas of interest: agile methods, development in daily
usage
- Maximum number of mentees: 1
- How to apply: a CV and a letter of motivation, one-on-one interview
- Meeting frequency: ideally
once every month, once in two weeks, based upon discussion
- Language
options: Czech, English
Dušan Přecechtěl
- About Dušan: Dušan
studied financial and insurance mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and
Physics, Charles University, and finance at the Faculty of Finance and
Accounting at the University of Business and Economics in Prague. He worked as a portfolio manager in an international investment company responsible for
directing financial activities and risk assessment for institutional clients in
the CEE region. In 2014, he came to EY, where he now works as a senior manager
in the Financial Services Risk Management department as a part of a team
specializing in credit and operation risk, modelling and related regulatory
questions.
- Company: EY
- Degree: Econometrics, Statistics,
Applied Mathematics
- Candidate requirements: Postgraduate or PhD student,
final year Undergraduate also eligible
- Areas of interest: focus on
IFRS9, IRB and Stress testing models, ESG topics, ECB Comprehensive Assessment
and EY IFRS9 ECL engine implementation
- Maximum number of mentees:
1
- Application process: a CV and a letter of motivation, one-on-one
interview
- Meeting frequency: ideally once a month, once every two months
at minimum, at least six times per year except summer vacation
- Language
options: Czech, Slovak, English
Sysgo
- Mentor's profile: Czech engineers in Sysgo have mostly graduated from
FEL CVUT or MFF UK. They have extensive professional experience in domain of
low-level programming and operating systems. In Sysgo you can meet experts who
contributed to many essential software pieces such as gcc or uboot. Besides
developing our own operating system we are largely engaged in certifying
software for safety and security purposes.
- Organization: Sysgo is a company oriented to developing its
own operating system PikeOS and certifying it for safety and security. PikeOS is a missing-critical realtime operating system that is being typically deployed in
transportation, industry or any domain where highest confidence in software
safety and security is required. In Sysgo we provide working conditions for calm
work and healthy work-life balance.
- Candidate Requirement: Any MFF UK
student if he is interested in our field.
- Area of interest: Operating
systems, low-level software development or any interest that has overlap or
application in these two domains.
- Application process: CV declaring
intention and motivation. Then personal talk with the company contact
person.
- Meeting frequency: Depends largely on intention of the
mentoring. Typically we are able to provide conditions for gaining professional
experience in Sysgo (internship) or an opensource project. But it is possible to
use the mentoring for wider purposes. For example, for carrier consulting or
getting feedback on options on the job market.
- Language options: Czech,
Slovak, English, possibly German or Russian
