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Martin Kaše

Senior mobile & front-end engineer.

who is Martin Kaše?

Martin Kaše is a senior mobile and front-end engineer based in Ústí nad Labem, Czechia, building mobile and web products end to end — from the first commit to the store listing — since 2013. Currently senior mobile engineer at Finviz and senior software engineer at Aukro. Remote by default, usually zero to one, and lately with a lot of help from agentic tooling.

Facts

#facts
role
Senior mobile & front-end engineer
shipping_since
2013
scope
End to end, usually zero to one
work_mode
Remote by default
based_in
Ústí nad Labem, Czechia
timezone
Europe/Prague
languages
Czech (native) · English (fluent)
available
Daily 08:00 — 16:00

Work

#work

— present

Finviz

Senior mobile engineer

Financial market visualisation, screening and research

Building the Finviz mobile app from the ground up in React Native — architecture, navigation, real-time market data and the release pipeline for both stores.

Live on the App Storefinviz.comApp Store#finviz

— present

Aukro

Senior software engineer

The largest online marketplace in Czechia

Led the move off a legacy web wrapper onto a full CapacitorJS build with custom UI, native plugins, push notifications and an over-the-air package update system. App Store rating went from 2.2 to 4.4 stars.

App Store 2.2 → 4.4 ★aukro.cz#aukro

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SCIO

Software engineer, app developer

National education and student testing company

Built the official SCIO app from scratch in React Native for both platforms, then owned it end to end. Grew to more than 50,000 users.

50,000+ usersscio.cz#scio

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Pricefx

Senior software engineer

Enterprise price optimisation and management platform

Built front ends for complex enterprise pricing systems in React and Ember, working across a distributed team. Joined as a software engineer in 2018 and moved up to senior in 2021.

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ADLER Czech

Front-end developer

Promotional textile e-commerce

Developed the Adler e-shop front end in React and Angular, from catalogue and search through to checkout.

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Microsoft CZ

Microsoft Partner

Windows Phone evangelism and app development

Evangelised Windows Phone and spoke on XNA and mobile development. Built Windows Phone apps of my own along the way — Databáze Knih, Bazoš (Neoficiální) and JRm — Dopravní podnik.

Selected projects

#projects
VS Code extension 105 ★

Swift for VS Code

The first Swift language support extension for VS Code.

Written before Apple or the VS Code team shipped anything official. Syntax highlighting, snippets and build tasks for Swift, and still the reference implementation people fork from.

github.com
VS Code extension 57k installs

Nette Latte + Neon

Language support for the Latte templating engine and Neon config.

Highlighting, snippets and formatting for Nette's Latte and Neon file formats. Passed 57,000 installs on the Marketplace.

marketplace.visualstudio.com
macOS CLI

opengcontrol

Open-source CLI alternative to Logitech G software on macOS.

Control Logitech G device lighting and settings from the terminal, without running the vendor's heavyweight desktop app.

github.com

Stack

#stack

mobile

  • React Native
  • CapacitorJS
  • Ionic
  • Cordova
  • Swift
  • iOS
  • Android

web

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Angular
  • Ember
  • Vite
  • HTML
  • CSS

server

  • Node.js
  • PHP (Nette)
  • MySQL
  • C#
  • XNA

ai & hardware

  • Agentic AI
  • Home Assistant
  • ESP8266
  • IoT

Freelance & early work

#early

PIXBUF

Web software developer

Built web applications on Nette and MySQL with HTML5 and CSS3 front ends, plus Android automation work.

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City Taxi Brno

Mobile software developer

Built the iOS and Android apps in PhoneGap on a JavaScript and MySQL stack.

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BubbleMania Czech

Mobile software developer

Built both the front end and the back end of the iOS and Android apps in PhoneGap, backed by Azure SQL.

Education

#education

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Střední průmyslová škola Ústí nad Labem

Information technology