Martin Konicek
Software Engineer at Cogna
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Konicek is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building developer-facing and product systems across mobile, web, and lab automation, currently based in London. He led open-source efforts at Facebook—helping launch React Native for Android and maintaining its OSS surface—and has shipped production systems at Figma and Synthace, where he bridged TypeScript, Go and .NET to control lab robots. Comfortable across full stacks and languages (Scala, Java, .NET, TypeScript, Go, Android), he combines deep debugging and UX sensibilities—evident from long-term contributions to AvalonEdit and performance tooling at Facebook. A repeat Google Summer of Code contributor and former McKinsey Horizon participant, he pairs hands-on implementation with thoughtful engineering leadership and a knack for making complex distributed systems feel usable.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc., Software engineering, MSc., Software engineering at Charles University
English, Spanish, Czech, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
git10
javascript10
react-native10
mobile-development10
text-editor10
github10
xaml10
dynamic10
code-completion10
tooltip10
ubuntu10
logging10
wpf10
csharp10
documentation10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/react-native
Jul 2015 - Sep 2018
A framework for building native applications using React
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 176 commits, 402 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the React Native framework, focusing on documentation, example code updates, and bug fixes within the context of the provided commits. Their work included adding an example for getting window dimensions, fixing grammar issues, and updating the bot testing application. Additionally, they were involved in removing the built-in navigation template, contributing to the project's overall structure and efficiency.
reactnative-applicationsmobile-developmentreact-nativeandroid
icsharpcode/AvalonEdit
Aug 2009 - Dec 2010
The WPF-based text editor component used in SharpDevelop
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the AvalonEdit text editor component, a WPF-based project. Their work involved fixing bugs related to tooltip positioning and read-only states, as well as implementing improvements to the code completion feature, including substring and camel case searches. Furthermore, the user focused on refining the code completion window behavior and incorporating suggestions for better usability, along with performance optimizations.
c-sharpcsharpwpftext-basedavalonedit
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