Žan Malek
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolŽan Malek is a frontend-focused software engineer based in Vienna with 14 years of IT experience and 4+ years specializing in React and TypeScript. He combines hands-on development with operational responsibility, having ensured production readiness, incident resolution and on-call support for enterprise applications at Austrian Lotteries. His background spans product support, tooling and system migrations, where he built internal validation tools and streamlined JIRA/Confluence/Bitbucket workflows to speed support and onboarding. Žan contributes to open-source documentation—improving guides and release notes for the Aloha Editor—demonstrating attention to developer experience beyond code. Comfortable designing self-developed products with product managers, he brings a pragmatic blend of front-end craft, tooling automation and service reliability. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who turns support pain points into durable developer-facing solutions.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Graduate, High School Graduate at Gimnazija in srednja kemijska šola RušeInformation Science Engineer VI/1, Information Technology, 8.0/10.0, Information Science Engineer VI/1, Information Technology, 8.0/10.0 at B2 Higher Vocational College
English, German, Slovenian, Japanese
Github Skills (4)
documentation10
html9
css7
javascript6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor
Mar 2012 - Sep 2022
Aloha Editor is a JavaScript content editing library
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1132 commits, 617 pushes, 341 branches in 10 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Žan's contributions primarily involve modifying and updating documentation for the Aloha Editor project. They fixed documentation errors in the table of contents plugin guide, prepared maven releases by updating documentation files, and added documentation for the horizontalruler and numerated-headers plugins. They also updated various guides and fixed several documentation issues and inconsistencies, showing a consistent effort to improve the project's documentation.
contenteditablewysiwygjavascriptalohapulse
gentics/ferma-orientdb-vertx
Jul 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes, 5 tags in 11 months
orientdb
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