Jan Liška
Developer Advocate
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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RockstarJan Liška is a Developer Advocate based in Prague with 9 years of experience helping engineers adopt and use developer platforms. At Autodesk since 2023, he bridges product, docs, and developer experience to make APIs and tooling more approachable for integrators. He contributes to high-profile open-source work on DefinitelyTyped, improving TypeScript typings for Forge APIs and Viewer components to strengthen type safety for downstream projects. Jan combines hands-on full-stack development with advocacy skills, often surfacing subtle API contract issues before they reach users. His background suggests a mix of engineering rigor and community-focused communication that accelerates adoption of complex SDKs.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
typescripts10
type-definition10
typescript-types10
gulp-typescript6
azure6
autodesk-forge6
autodesk6
arduino6
autodesk-model-derivative6
forge6
esp82666
autodesk-viewer6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
May 2020 - May 2022
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 47 commits, 50 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the development of TypeScript type definitions within the `definitelytyped/definitelytyped` repository. They updated type definitions for various Forge APIs and Viewer components, addressing issues with methods, signatures, and missing parameters. The user's work improved the completeness and correctness of the TypeScript typings, helping to ensure the type safety of projects using the libraries.
typescriptdefinitiondtstypingstypescript-definitions
autodesk-tandem/tutorial-rest-python
Feb 2024 - Apr 2026
Contributions:6 PRs, 37 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 2 months
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