Jirka was a CTO. Peter ran a 50-person engineering domain. Between them, 35 years building and leading engineering orgs with real stakes. They built Navigara because the right instrument didn’t exist, so they kept assembling it themselves, in spreadsheets, until they couldn’t.
01The Founders
The founders sat in the same chair.
Co-Founder & CEOEx-CTO
Jirka Bachel
VP of Engineering at Seznam.cz· Browser for 1.5M monthly users
18+ years of technical leadership across Silicon Valley and Prague. VP of Engineering at Seznam.cz, where he led the team behind a browser with 1.5M monthly users. CTO at multiple companies building products for Fortune 500 customers. He managed large engineering orgs for years and answered “are we on track?” with gut feeling and quarterly retros.
We built Navigara because spreadsheets never showed what our teams were actually doing.
Director of Engineering at Kiwi.com· 50-person Platform domain
15+ years leading engineering teams. Most recently, Director of Engineering at Kiwi.com, where he ran the 50-person Platform group. A decade scaling teams and infrastructure for consumer products with millions of users, and a decade explaining that work to people who never opened a pull request.
The hardest part was never the technology. It was showing the business what engineering had actually done.
Navigara is what we wish we’d had when we were managing large engineering teams.
2025 / Pivot
In 2025, Peter joined as co-founder, and Navigara grew from an AI evaluation tool into the instrument we’d been trying to assemble in spreadsheets for years.
