Michal Danilák
Co-Founder & CTO at Mediaboard
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichal Danilák is a pragmatic technology leader and Co-Founder & CTO with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms from Prague. He leads development of Mediaboard, a media-monitoring product built on a Python/Django backend, Postgres, Elasticsearch and React/Next.js front-end, while actively hiring engineers across Python, React and DevOps. Comfortable switching between hands-on engineering, test automation and customer-facing product work, he has a track record of improving reliability and determinism—evidenced by contributions to a popular Python port of Google's language-detection library that added Python 3 compatibility and fixed non-deterministic behavior. His background includes a formative internship on Facebook’s Growth team and a theoretical computer science degree from Charles University, combining rigorous foundations with startup execution. Colleagues describe him as relentless about quality and pragmatic about shipping.
13 years of coding experience
Bc., Theoretical computer science, Bc., Theoretical computer science at Charles University
Github Skills (8)
language-detection10
unit-testing10
python10
test-automation10
testing10
cicd5
githubaction-workflow5
github-ci5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Mimino666/langdetect
May 2014 - May 2021
Port of Google's language-detection library to Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 48 commits, 15 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michal primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `langdetect` library. They ported utility functions with unit tests, including tests for character normalization and n-gram generation, demonstrating a focus on ensuring code correctness and robustness. Further contributions involved refactoring the code to be compatible with Python 3.x. They also added a simple way to set the factory seed to fix issues with non-deterministic results.
language-detectionpython
Mimino666/python-xextract
Jan 2015 - Apr 2022
Extract structured data from HTML and XML documents like a boss.
Contributions:1 review, 92 commits, 3 PRs in 7 years 4 months
xml-document
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