Martin Štekl
Platform Engineering Manager
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Štekl is a Platform Engineering Manager with 15 years of experience building scalable developer platforms and backend services, currently leading Development Scalability efforts at DNAnexus from Prague. He blends hands-on expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, Docker and PostgreSQL with roadmap-level architecture and developer experience improvements across multiple teams. Martin has a proven track record shipping tooling for monorepos and CI/CD (contributions to microsoft/rushstack) and improving static analysis for PHP via notable contributions to phpstan. Comfortable moving between code and leadership, he drives technical decisions, mentors engineers, and prototypes practices that raise productivity and stability. His background spans startups to large product teams, and he often surfaces non-obvious gains by investing in developer tooling and automation.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
HS Diploma, Math and Physics, HS Diploma, Math and Physics at Gymnázium Christiana DoppleraMaster's degree, Informatics - Web Engineering, Master's degree, Informatics - Web Engineering at České vysoké učení technické v Praze, Fakulta informačních technologií
Czech, English, Slovak
Github Skills (20)
reflection10
static-analysis10
pnpm10
annotations10
typescript10
git-hooks10
rush10
build210
php10
typescript-types10
toolchain10
monorepo10
reflections10
nodejs10
typescripts10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/rushstack
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Monorepo for tools developed by the Rush Stack community
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Martin contributed significantly to the `rushstack` monorepo, focusing on improving the build and deployment processes. They modified the `rush deploy` command to incorporate `devDependencies` for rush projects and addressed project change detection with PNPM. Additionally, the user added and refined scripts for installing and running rush, especially for PNPM, and enhanced the Git hook integration.
apimonorepoeslintapi-extractororchestrator
phpstan/phpstan
May 2017 - Jul 2017
PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 6 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the PHPStan static analysis tool, focusing on enhancements related to annotations and reflection. Their work involved parsing and processing annotations for properties and methods, including the implementation of features like write-only properties, nullable types, and parameter parsing for method annotations. These changes improved PHPStan's ability to analyze code and identify potential issues by providing more comprehensive type information derived from annotations. The user also added improvements for parsing multiple types, fixing multiple parsing bugs and adding failing test cases.
static-analyzerdiscoverlinterphp-static-analysistesting
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