Heureka Group
90%+
of R&D using AI tools
13
teams onboarded in 3 months
50%
time savings on key tasks
I don’t just advise on AI.I build it.
And I don’t do it alone. Five agents I built work with me every day. They have names and jobs of their own.
The crew
Every agent has its job and a schedule. All of them run on agent-core, Claude Code, MCP, and Coolify.
Prsíček
for me
My second brain. It processes my meetings and messages and remembers what I discussed with whom.
Lumír Sokol
DX Heroes
Marketing and content for DX Heroes. It writes and learns from the numbers what worked.
Franta
DX Heroes
Engineer and product manager at DX Heroes. It takes tasks from GitHub and turns them into pull requests.
Tom Gilský
Plantory
Go-to-market for Plantory. It finds gardeners and reaches out to them.
Jáchym Tolar
its own business
It tests whether an AI agent can build a profitable software business of its own. It finds a problem, validates it with people and builds the software.
What I build
My own products are where I find out what AI can do in software development. What works, I bring into companies.
Products
MCP Gateway
A DX Heroes productManagement and audit of MCP servers for company AI clients, running on your own infrastructure.
Záboj
A DX Heroes productA voice assistant.
Plantory
FounderAn AI-powered gardening app for gardeners across Europe.
5,000+ users across Europe
SmartStaff
FounderAI colleagues for company teams.
Open source
- Gitwall
Open pull requests and issues from GitHub and GitLab in the macOS menu bar and widgets.
Author - Awesome Developer Experience
A curated list of developer experience resources and tools.
Author - Developer Experience Knowledge Base
An open-source knowledge base about developer experience.
Top contributor
What I bring into companies
With the DX Heroes team we help companies bring AI into software development. We train people, build the first agents and measure whether it helps.
AI in development
Česká spořitelna
270+
people trained across IT roles
Developer experience
Before AI, we made integrations faster and took needless work off developers. We still use that craft today.
Where I come from
I started out teaching kids to program. Then I was a developer, a team lead and a CTO. Today I run DX Heroes.
- since 2021
CEO and co-founder
DX Heroes
- 2019–2021
CTO and co-founder
DX Heroes
- since 2019
Developer Experience Expert and Tribe Leader
Applifting
- 2017–2019
Node.js engineer and team leader of the Erste Group developer portal (PSD2)
Applifting
- 2015–2017
Developer and team leader (Ruby on Rails, React)
Applifting
- 2013–2015
Developer (Ruby on Rails)
intoit s.r.o.
- 2011–2013
Lecturer of coding and web courses for children
DDM Praha 9
Talks
Podcasts where I talk about AI and developer experience.
- November 2025Data TalkData Talk #159: Prokop Simek & Vratislav Kalenda (DX Heroes & Applifting)
- May 2025ZážehAI vám zrychlí vývoj. A možná rozloží firmu.
- Bridging the GapHow does DX make a difference?
- ZážehProč je důležitá developer experience
- July 2021Právo v kostcePrávo v kostce #30 - Prokop Simek z Applifting a DX Heroes
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