Marek Trunkát
CTO at Apify
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolMarek Trunkát is a CTO and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building scalable cloud-native systems and modern TypeScript frontends, currently leading engineering at Apify — a prominent web scraping and RPA platform. He joined Apify as employee #5 and grew the org to ~60 engineers across cross-functional teams while embedding QA, SOC 2 practices, and product-facing engineering. With a foundation in theoretical mathematics (Master’s from Charles University) and early coding roots, he blends rigorous analytical thinking with hands-on development. He contributes to open-source tooling for web automation — notably work on the Crawlee key-value store SDK used in reliable Node.js crawlers — and thrives on problems that force continual learning across infrastructure, client tech, and automation.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematical Structures, Master's degree, Mathematical Structures at Charles University in PragueMathematics, Mathematics at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
English, Czech
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Github Skills (14)
typescript10
typescripts10
key-value-store10
javascript10
nodejs10
typescript-types10
shadow-dom6
xpath6
docker6
scrapy6
puppeteer6
amazon-web-services6
webscraping6
amazon-ec26
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apify/crawlee
May 2017 - Nov 2021
Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 444 commits, 204 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Marek primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of the key-value store SDK, evidenced by commits focused on implementing and refining its functionality. These commits involved creating methods to open key-value stores, implementing REST methods for interacting with the store, and adding iteration methods. Further contributions included incorporating support for input/output parameters and adding code for handling different content types with proper charset settings.
web-crawlercrawlersscrapingcrawlingrpa
apify/apify-client-js
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Apify API client for JavaScript / Node.js.
Contributions:13 reviews, 336 commits, 120 PRs in 5 years 9 months
api-clientapinode-jsjavascriptapify
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