Martin Chrástek
Localization Solutions Engineer
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
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Top SchoolMartin Chrástek is a Localization Solutions Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience blending software development, automation and internationalization. He has led localization teams and migrations as a Localization Manager at Reservio and built end-to-end tools as a solo creator at Custom.MT, from a Document Translation API to GenAI portals and edit-distance dashboards. A prolific contributor to open-source i18n projects like LinguiJS and localizations for CodeCombat, he combines deep technical fixes with practical integration and documentation improvements. Martin’s background spans full-stack development, security research and bespoke tooling for publishers, reflecting a rare mix of product sensibility and low-level automation skills. Based in Brno, he repeatedly turns localization challenges into scalable developer-first solutions that keep linguistic quality measurable and repeatable.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Obchodní akademie Uherské HradištěBachelor's degree (Unfinished), Applied Informatics, Bachelor's degree (Unfinished), Applied Informatics at Masarykova univerzita Brno
Czech, English
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
c-language10
translation10
internationalization10
localization10
build-automation10
i18next10
react10
clang10
command-line-interface9
lerna9
command-line9
nodejs9
cli9
typescript7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lingui/js-lingui
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
🌍 📖 A readable, automated, and optimized (3 kb) internationalization for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & Localization Specialist
Full-stack Developer & Localization SpecialistContributions:144 reviews, 9 commits, 21 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements within the Lingui.js internationalization library. Their contributions include resolving issues related to local development on Windows, fixing macro extraction, and addressing dynamic versioning for internal packages. Furthermore, the user improved documentation related to catalog formats and addressed issues within the command-line interface, specifically catalog merging and path replacement. These contributions highlight expertise in both the core functionalities of the library and its integration with build processes.
l10nreactmessageformatreadablereact-native
codecombat/codecombat
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Game for learning how to code.
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin's commits primarily focus on translating strings within the `cs.coffee` locale file for the CodeCombat game. The changes involve adding and updating Czech translations for various user interface elements, game text, and other strings, suggesting a focus on localization efforts. The contributions appear to be focused on improving the game's accessibility for Czech-speaking players by providing accurate and comprehensive translations.
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