Tomáš Štrba
Tech Lead, Senior MacOS Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Earth, Texas, Slovakia
Summary
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Top SchoolTomáš Štrba is a tech lead and senior macOS engineer with six years of focused experience building desktop and mobile products, including key roles on ESET Cyber Security and DuckDuckGo’s browser. He architected DuckDuckGo’s desktop browser from the ground up, shipped its first public beta, and now refines release, monitoring, and reliability processes to boost stability and user retention. Equally at home in macOS and iOS codebases, he has contributed practical UX features and quality improvements to the DuckDuckGo iOS app (e.g., app icon switching, Bitwarden autofill, os_log adoption). A former first desktop engineer at DuckDuckGo who also mentors new hires, Tomáš combines hands-on implementation with product-informed roadmap input. His academic background in intelligent systems hints at a measured, data-driven approach to solving product and engineering trade-offs.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Brno University of Technology
English, German
Github Skills (5)
swift10
ios10
user-interface10
privacy8
duckduckgo8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/iOS
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
DuckDuckGo iOS Application
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:38 reviews, 9 commits, 51 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tomáš primarily focused on the iOS application development, implementing and modifying features for the DuckDuckGo iOS application. Their contributions include adding the ability to change the app icon, integrating Bitwarden functionalities for autofill, updating logging to use `os_log`, and addressing SwiftLint violations to improve code quality. They also worked on UI-related elements such as displaying app icon previews and managing user settings screens.
objective-cprivacyduckduckgoprivate-searchios
duckduckgo/privacy-for-safari
Dec 2019 - Jun 2022
DuckDuckGo Privacy for Safari
Contributions:6 reviews, 21 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 7 months
safarisafari-extensionduckduckgoprivacy
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