Thomas Marek
Chief Technology Officer at PinSeeker
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Marek is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 17 years of experience delivering scalable web applications, five of which focused deeply on Ruby on Rails. He combines hands-on engineering—performance optimization, complex database modeling and modern UIs—with proven leadership of distributed teams using Scrum and Kanban. His career spans startup and enterprise roles from hands-on engineering to VP Engineering, and he currently drives technology at PinSeeker while previously leading engineering at Abe.ai. An active open-source contributor, he has improved internationalization and test automation in the popular cucumber-ruby project, showing attention to quality and global users. Known for pragmatic infrastructure work (Puppet/Vagrant, EC2 tooling) and measurable impact—page-load and SEO gains—he excels at turning operational challenges into repeatable, automated solutions.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Computer Specialist, Software development and fundamental economic principles, Certified Computer Specialist, Software development and fundamental economic principles at Three-year Professional Training at BioSolveIT GmbH
English, German
Github Skills (7)
testing10
cucumber10
test-automation10
ruby10
i18next8
i18n-js8
i18n-node8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cucumber/cucumber-ruby
Nov 2008 - Oct 2009
Cucumber for Ruby. It's amazing!
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:21 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Thomas contributed to the `cucumber/cucumber-ruby` repository by updating and adding examples for the German language features. This involved modifying language keywords within the `feature_de.rb` file and adding new examples using the German language in step definitions. Further contributions included fixing typos in existing examples and adding methods to the rake task, and addressing an issue with the Rake task's binary path.
cucumberrubyamazingpolyglot-releasetidelift
abeai/node-utils
May 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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