Martin Lipták

The first and probably the only wedding website builder in Slovakia. I developed the back-end using Ruby on Rails and a co-founder handled the front-end. We put too many features into our MVP and some users ended up having problems we would never imagine, but over 300 couples created their websites using our service.

Website that aggregates daily menus of student canteens in Bratislava with almost 5,000 unique visitors/month. I learned a lot about the importance of marketing and SEO on this project.

Website aggregating and visualizing statistics about Internet domains in Slovakia. The application also used to crawl all the Slovak domains and analyze which frameworks and libraries power them. I did some worldwide statistics by using a sample of 3 million domains. This was my first Rails project.

Researching ways of collecting and storing user data in an application to organize scientific papers. I developed many useful features to internal university projects like integration with external services (Mendeley) or natural language processing APIs.

The application aims to help schools with poor Internet connectivity get better access to the web. It works as a multi-platform proxy server that caches and preloads web sites. I built a Ruby testing framework for the proxy server and developed multiple features such as local network synchronization or automatic updates.

This project focused on implementing scrapers of public data in Slovakia and researching ways of integrating them. I implemented scrapers for government websites in Ruby and a framework for experiments with machine learning in Java. Later, we provided the software to an organization watching transparency in Slovakia.