Matej Kňazík
Senior Software Engineer at Kiwi.com
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatej Kňazík is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building and leading product development within Kiwi.com’s post-booking platform, spanning backend APIs and frontend web. He mentors engineers, owns post-booking payments as a technical lead, and drives delivery of complex product initiatives while improving CI/CD, observability, and performance. Matej progressed from intern to senior engineer at the same company, demonstrating deep domain knowledge of travel post-booking workflows and a knack for turning operational signals into reliable dashboards and alerts. He holds a Master’s in Software Systems and Services Management and brings a pragmatic, research-minded approach—evident from his early work on localization and a bachelor’s thesis titled Stranger Strings.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software systems and services management, Master's degree, Software systems and services management at Masaryk University BrnoBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Brno University of Technology
Github Skills (16)
orbit10
kiwi10
styled-components10
typos10
react9
localization9
component-library9
react-components7
chunks6
jar5
checker5
lightning3
java3
lint3
linter2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kiwicom/stranger-strings
Sep 2018 - Oct 2021
Web app for localisation analysing
Contributions:1 review, 185 commits, 91 PRs in 3 years 1 month
analyzinginconsistenciestranslationsinconsistent-placeholderstypos
kiwicom/Paper-Plane
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 8 months
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