Pavel Doleček
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolPavel Doleček is a pragmatic full‑stack engineer with 12 years of experience building and leading front‑end teams, shipping production React/Vue applications, and architecting APIs with Node and TypeScript. He was an early hire at Kiwi.com, growing with the company from its startup roots into a scale‑up while mentoring engineers, running workshops, and shaping technical architecture. At Apify he contributed to open‑source Crawlee, enhancing HTTP crawling, parsers, and API ergonomics for a library used in scraping and automation workflows. Comfortable across legacy stacks (Angular.js, Rails, PHP) and modern toolchains (GraphQL, Cypress, Flow), he combines hands‑on coding with practical team leadership. Based in Brno, he’s passionate about information design, health and fitness, and brings a curious, maker mindset—he literally enjoys telling computers what to do.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Applied Informatics at Masaryk University BrnoGraduation, Graduation at Gymnázium Kroměříž
Czech, English, German
Stackoverflow
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9answers
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Github Skills (18)
cheerio10
javascript10
typescript10
webscraping10
typescript-types10
crawler10
nodejs10
typescripts10
api-design9
automation9
automations9
angular-ui-bootstrap6
angularjs6
jquery6
angularjs-directive6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
apify/crawlee
Oct 2020 - Apr 2024
Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 8 PRs, 20 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `crawlee` library, focusing on improving its HTTP crawling capabilities and API. Their work includes implementing new features like the `parseWithCheerio` helper, adding a new crawler `LinkeDOMCrawler`, and enabling CDATA support in sitemaps. They also demonstrated skills in API design by allowing inline router definition, and enhancing the user's experience.
web-crawlercrawlersscrapingcrawlingrpa
Strajk/refined-trello
Aug 2016 - Aug 2020
Simplifies the Trello interface and adds useful features
Contributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years
trello
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