Martin Klapetek
Senior Android Developer at Slack
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Klapetek is a Senior Android Developer with 16 years of experience building user-focused software, currently driving mobile development at Slack from Old Toronto. His background spans desktop and mobile UI work—he contributed front-end improvements to the widely used KDE Plasma desktop (notably Kickoff and panel components) before moving into Android at companies like 500px. Martin combines deep UI/UX sensibilities with pragmatic engineering, improving scrolling, word-wrapping, tooltips and keyboard icon handling across projects. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Technical University of Ostrava and brings a steady track record of shipping refined user interfaces across open-source and commercial products.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Technical University of Ostrava
Github Skills (7)
qml10
user-interface10
ui-design10
qt10
graphical-user-interface10
kde-plasma10
compiler8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/plasma-desktop
Apr 2014 - Jan 2016
Plasma for the Desktop
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the user interface of the KDE Plasma Desktop environment, specifically focusing on the Kickoff application and various panel components. Their work included fixing typos, improving the user experience by enhancing scrolling behavior and word-wrapping text, and addressing issues with the application view and breadcrumb navigation. Additionally, the user made changes to tooltip display, and keyboard layout icons.
electronlinuxc-plus-pluschromeosdesktop
KDE/libkfbapi
Jun 2012 - Nov 2014
Contributions:90 commits in 2 years 5 months
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