Jan Barta

Product Growth engineering lead at Apify

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Technical growth leader with software engineering and data science background who uses AI to multiply acquisition, activation and retention of users with experimentation, and product-engineering output.

Experience

  • Apify (Full-time · 3 yrs 6 mos)
    • Growth Engineering Lead
      Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

      Leading Apify’s Product Growth engineering team, helping users discover value faster, stay engaged, and grow their usage of the platform. I drive engineering and product initiatives across acquisition, activation, monetization, and retention, combining experimentation, analytics, AI-driven solutions, and strong instrumentation to deliver measurable business outcomes and better user experiences.

    • Acquisition Engineering Lead
      Mar 2024 - Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Leading acquisition engineering at Apify. Designing and creating solutions to help go-to-market (GTM) teams achieve their goals. Managing websites with over 500k+ monthly visitors and developing solutions that drive more than 100k+ monthly sign-ups. - Successfully transformed and scaled the original UX team into a fully functional, product-focused engineering team. - Creating and designing solutions for getting more users into our applications. Adding more than 10,000 targeted landing pages by leveraging advanced SEO strategies such as User Generated Content (UGC) and Programmatic SEO. - Collaborate across multiple departments to ensure that Marketing, Growth, Sales, and Customer Support have effective tools for acquiring new users and converting them into high-value customers. - Work closely with Product and Design teams to provide a unified and exceptional user experience for new users across Apify's products and websites. - Responsible for analytics and user tracking across Apify products. Collaborating with data teams to create solutions that aggregate information from all applications and websites into a single customer data platform (CDP), providing all stakeholders with a unified experience.

    • New User Experience engineering team lead
      Jan 2023 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Leading a product engineering team with a focus on user activation and NUX (New User Experience) - Part of a product trio, helping product managers and designers understand the feasibility and technical part of the product. - Focusing on improving the activation journey and UX for new users - onboarding, first interactions with the product, initial screens, and states of the application and websites. - Working on the unification of design, brand, and how users interact with the user interfaces across our products. In charge of the implementation of the design system - reusable components, patterns, and tokens.

  • Apify (2 yrs 5 mos)
    • Software Engineering Team Lead
      Apr 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Team leader of one of the engineering teams in Apify. - Responsible for the company website, documentation, blog, and CMS from a technical point of view. - Building front-ends and back-ends for the Apify platform - web scraping and web automation web app. - Working as a "bridge" between software engineering, product, and marketing. - In charge of planning, code reviews, solutioning, design pattern compliance, team efficiency, and reaching company goals and OKRs.

    • Senior Full Stack Engineer
      Nov 2020 - Apr 2021 · 6 mos

      Member of the platform team. Developing both front-end and back-end parts of web scraping and automation platform. I was working on new app features and improvements. My main focus was always on nice and usable UI with a great UX.

    • Full Stack Engineer
      Mar 2020 - Nov 2020 · 9 mos

      Member of the Hacker team. Our main responsibility was building and maintaining the web scraping and web automation SDK (https://sdk.apify.com/). One of our other projects was a building generic solution for real-time monitoring of automated tasks - checking statuses, validating output data, and managing statistics in the dashboard charts. (https://apify.com/apify/monitoring)

  • CERN (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
    • Development leader and software architect
      Jun 2018 - Mar 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Engineered and designed the architecture of a distributed data management platform supporting the Inner Detector of the ATLAS on the Large Hadron Collider - Led cross-functional Engineering and QA teams responsible for the development, testing, and long-term maintenance of a mission-critical scientific software application - Owned the full delivery lifecycle of new features. From gathering requirements with CERN scientists and researchers, through technical solution design, implementation, validation, and production rollout

    • Full Stack Engineer
      Aug 2017 - Jun 2018 · 11 mos

      Building an application for a distributed data management system for the inner detector of ATLAS on the Large Hadron Collider - In charge of creating both front-end and back-end solutions for the initial prototype of the application - Managing product requirements and feedback directly from scientists working on the detector in CERN

  • Full Stack Engineer at Unicorn
    2017 - Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    Building an application for creating online courses for company trainings and universities - In charge of creating reusable components and building complex UI elements and layouts