Martin Cech
Software Engineer at galaxyproject
crazy.logo.clown, Czech Republic
Summary
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RockstarMartin Cech is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience spanning front-end, back-end, full-stack, and DevOps work. He contributes actively to open-source bioinformatics and data-science projects—improving UI/UX for Galaxy community sites, hardening disposable-email domain verification with public-suffix checks and CI, and maintaining Conda recipes for Bioconda. Comfortable refactoring legacy build and search-index code, he blends pragmatic infrastructure changes with polish on responsive interfaces. Based in the Czech Republic, he pairs a developer’s attention to UI detail with backend rigor, demonstrated by both visual improvements and CI-driven verification pipelines. An understated "software maker," Martin often surfaces in community projects where maintainability and cross-cutting fixes matter most.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (41)
python10
package-management10
css10
configuration-management10
conda10
bash10
cicd10
automation10
front-end-development10
html10
bioinformatics10
automations10
lessc10
validations9
github-ci9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
disposable-email-domains/disposable-email-domains
Sep 2014 - Dec 2022
a list of disposable email domains
Role in this project:
Back-end Engineer
Back-end EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 247 commits, 322 PRs in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on improving the integrity and functionality of the domain blocklist verification process. Their contributions involved implementing checks for public suffixes, fixing file names and logic errors in the verification script, and ensuring the latest public suffix database was utilized. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to improve maintainability and integrated a new CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.
pypiemail-addressallowlistdisposabletemporary-email
galaxyproject/galaxy
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
Data intensive science for everyone.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 292 reviews, 74 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Martin contributed to infrastructure and search index improvements. They refactored the Tool Shed search index building process, allowing the API to bypass wildcard searches and added features to allow more control over the behavior of the index updates. They also made changes to the build process and configuration setup for the application with changes to the codebase regarding various tools and their configuration.
pythonsciencepipelinednadata-science
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