Jiří Koutný Engineering Manager · Lecturer · Pilot
ZLÍN, CZECHIA · OPEN TO IDEAS

I work where product, technology, and business meet.

For over twenty years I've helped teams turn complex ideas into practical solutions, weighing customer needs, technical reality, and business goals together. Lately my focus has been on AI-native ways of building products and delivering outcomes.

Portrait of Jiří Koutný
EXPERIENCE

Where I've worked.

Backend engineering manager at STRV, after enterprise healthcare in New York and a developer-to-product-owner path in Brno.

STRV · since 2021
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RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

Formal language theory.

A PhD in formal language theory, international research stays across three continents, and selected publications.

Ph.D. · 13 stays · 3 continents
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AVIATION

What flying teaches me.

A licensed private pilot, the FlyTheScan project, and what flying teaches me about building systems.

PPL · SEP · ICAO English
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WRITING

Selected writing.

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ENGINEERING · BUSINESS
Jun 2026 · 7 min read

The Age of Cheap Knowledge

Why software engineering is reorganizing around a different kind of scarcity.

ENGINEERING · BUSINESS
May 2026 · 5 min read

When “Faster” Doesn't Mean Sooner

A useful question: when we say “AI makes us faster,” do we mean typing or do we mean shipping?

CONTACT

Open to a conversation.

Happy to talk about solution engineering, architecture, and delivery — or about flying, if that's where the conversation goes. Email is the surest way to reach me:

LOCATION
Zlín, Czechia
LANGUAGES
English · Czech
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