Martin Račák
Senior Full-stack Engineer at Our World in Data
Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolMartin Račák is a Senior Full-stack Engineer with 11 years of experience building web systems and a strong interest in functional programming and systems design. Based in Prague, he currently develops data-driven tools at Our World in Data after previous engineering roles at Metaculus and Infinit, where he focused on practical solutions that prioritize impact over technology trends. He contributes to notable open-source projects like the popular Spacemacs distribution, improving editor integrations for Python tooling and developer ergonomics. Comfortable across the stack, Martin combines pragmatic problem-solving with thoughtful architecture, and prefers tackling important, real-world problems that produce measurable societal benefits.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave
Github Skills (10)
configuration-management10
configurations10
emacs10
configuration-file10
python9
vim8
co8
clojure-cli7
clojure7
git7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
syl20bnr/spacemacs
Sep 2015 - Oct 2020
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 25 comments in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the Spacemacs configuration, a community-driven Emacs distribution. Their commits involved fixing bugs, adding functionality, and refactoring code related to various layers and packages within the Emacs environment. The changes focused on integrating and configuring tools like Flycheck, Parinfer, and Anaconda, enhancing the user experience and improving the overall functionality of the editor. They also addressed keybindings and conditional setup for Python.
configurationvimspacemacsemacsemacs-lsp
rakyi/votemeal
Oct 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years 9 months
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