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Jiří Manda has taken over the reins from the previous CEO and co-founder of the company, Gábor Puhalla. Jiří has successfully built and led LinkSoft for many years. Gábor will continue to develop business opportunities at profiq in his role as VP of Business Development and has something new in the works. To learn more about Jiří and connect with him, visit his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jirimanda/ Follow us on social media for the latest news: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/profiq_2 Twitter: https://twitter.com/profiqtw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profiq.czech/

More and more companies are integrating machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) into their products. Last year was unusually fruitful. We experienced the release of Github Copilot, DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT and many other interesting AI services. Getting your company onboard with ML and AI can be challenging. The number of experts in this field is still far below market demand. The path to become an AI professional is rigorous and long. You need to master aspects of software engineering, database and big data management, statistics, and many…

Over the past ten years DevOps has become the standard for software engineering. DevOps introduced processes of automation that make software development and QA effective and accessible not just for large engineering teams, but startups, as well. However, like all new technologies, DevOps has changed quickly over the past decade. In this episode of the MovingFast Tech Podcast, Martin Prokeš shares his experiences with DevOps over time, including: How do we define modern DevOps? What are the latest tools and concepts? Where can developers find the best resources to stay…

We are pleased to announce the promotions of Martin Prokes to VP of Engineering and Petr Vecera to CTO. Both began working at profiq in 2014 as junior engineers, and have grown into technical and people leaders in our organization.  Our people are our greatest assets, and the reason for our success. We grow organically from the bottom up, which creates opportunities for our employees. These changes bring new ideas and energy to our leadership team, and help us scale the organization while we continue to grow. We look forward…

If you’ve visited our website, profiq.com, you’ve likely noticed a heading on our Your Team page that claims “Technology and a love of learning are in our DNA”. If you’ve wondered what that means in real life, this article is for you. It’s in our nature as a global software service provider to explore and quickly become proficient in new and emerging technologies, as well as consider potential applications, and even future improvements. With new technologies being created and improved rapidly, we always have to think ahead. This lets us…

For nearly two decades, volunteer distributed computing projects have helped advance scientific research and understanding of infections and hereditary diseases. Scientists need to understand how diseases work to formulate therapies to fight them. One key way to arrive at this understanding is to create models and run multitudes of molecular dynamics simulations.  These simulations are huge and resource-intensive. Even with the help of big cloud providers and onsite clusters, scientists still need computation resources to power these simulations. Using client-server systems like BOINC, volunteers run simulations called work units using…

Rastislav (Rasta) Kanócz, the CTO and Co-Founder of profiq, has extensive experience in hiring and training many types of software engineers involved in QA, R&D, and the newly emerging discipline, DevOps. The software engineers he hires and trains at profiq are then allocated to projects for profiq’s customers. Rasta recently shared his thoughts on the critical characteristics that a great software engineer should have. Question: What is the difference between software engineers, QA engineers, and software developers? Rasta: ‘Software Engineer’ is a general term that covers multiple disciplines: DevOps Engineers,…

Welcome to the first of our series of videocasts (a podcast with video content) where we talk about a variety of topics including trends in agile software development, QA, how to hire and develop skilled software developers, and life at profiq. In this videocast, Gabor Puhalla, profiq’s co-founder and CEO talks about how profiq builds technically skilled QA teams, what qualities make great QA engineers, where profiq finds highly skilled QA engineers, how to develop young talent, and how profiq keeps talented software developers engaged with our clients over the…

Trust is not always top of mind. But when trust is missing, you know it immediately. In software development, it is not uncommon to work with distributed teams and deeply embedded contract developers who are located in different cities or even in other countries. So how do you create trust across different geographical locations, time zones, and cultures? profiq co-founder and CEO Gabor Puhalla shares his advice about how to build trust, especially within remote working relationships. Read the full article on LinkeIn to explore in greater depth how trust…

Profiq’s co-founder and CEO, Gabor Puhalla, recently published an article on LinkedIn to offer his personal insights on how Agile software companies could benefit from hiring outside engineering teams. Gabor explores the key considerations in his post, "Could Agile Software Companies Benefit From Hiring An International Software Engineering Team? Consider The Pros And Cons”. Gabor shares how highly skilled remote engineers benefit in-house teams and can be a great option for speeding up development, filling hiring gaps in highly competitive markets, provide longevity, and support long-term, complex projects. You can…