Jan Martinek
Bookbinder at next-book
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Martinek is a Brno-based information design professional with over a decade of experience in web design, user experience, and institutional design. He currently serves as a Bookbinder at next-book and runs Jan-martinek.com as a freelancer, blending service design with knowledge management in libraries and information science contexts. His career spans leadership and hands-on roles—from founder of Kari-vydaje.cz to web administration at Halas o.s.—grounding him in practical UX and web development across sectors. Jan holds a Master’s in Political Science and a Bachelor’s in Political Science & Media Studies from Masaryk University, reflecting a strong interdisciplinary lens on tech, policy, and media. He describes himself as pursuing humane and civic tech, and he even teases a love for writing brackets and then taking them out—hinting at a playful, iterative design philosophy.
11 years of coding experience
Master's Degree, Political Science, Master's Degree, Political Science at Masaryk University Brno
English, German, French, Czech
Github Skills (60)
rich-text9
fact9
editors9
browser9
creative-commons8
boilerplate8
map-editor8
react8
tilemap8
richtext8
draft-js8
javascript8
contenteditable8
text-editor8
rte7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Demagog2/Demagog.cz
Jul 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
next-book/boilerplate
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
Web book boilerplate
Contributions:130 commits, 1 PR, 86 pushes in 2 years 9 months
webpackstatic-siteboilerplateweb-books
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