Marek Šuppa is a seasoned data leader with 15 years of engineering experience, currently Head of Data at Slido where he grew the team from 3 to 14 and established Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science functions. He has shepherded ML-enabled features from prototype to production, combining hands-on backend and DevOps skills with product-focused delivery. His open-source contributions span quality-focused work in projects like scikit-learn, IPython, Tectonic and DuckDuckGo, reflecting strengths in testing, refactoring and reliable backend systems. Marek’s practical emphasis on maintainability shows through frequent codebase cleanups, test fixes and automation contributions across diverse languages and domains. Based in Slovakia, he blends a pragmatic engineering mindset with a track record of scaling teams and operationalizing ML in customer-facing products.
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:20 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Marek primarily contributed to the `alternative_to` spice within the DuckDuckGo instant answers project. Their work involved developing both front-end (HTML, JavaScript) and back-end (Perl) components for displaying alternative software suggestions. The user implemented the initial functionality for retrieving and presenting alternative software options, improved the regular expression for parsing search queries, and added features for domain availability checks. These changes enhanced the functionality and user experience of the instant answers feature.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Marek primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the DuckDuckGo community platform. Their contributions included implementing placeholder checks, improving CSS for mobile versions, and making comments mobile-friendly. They also worked on integrating the comment system, adding features such as comment expansion and reply functionality, and fixing some graphical issues to improve the user interface. Furthermore, the user modified the create new issue link target.
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