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Profile of Key Developers

Hàn Thê Thành

Hàn Thê Thành has a strong background in typesetting and typography. He wrote PDFTEX, a popular typesetting program among academic authors, and also used to do large XML-based typesetting projects, e.g. Bible. He released PDFTEX as free software in the nineties which is the default compiler in all standard TEX distributions. For more details see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pdftex..

Thành has eight years of experience in web development, good knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript. He co-developed the front-end part of a component framework which allows writing complex web applications in Java. Thành is also well versed in system administration, he designed and implemented the current network infrastructure in STMDocs campus.

Thành holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. In fact, PDFTEX is part of his doctoral work. Thành is a Vietnamese by birth, currently lives with his wife and two children in Germany and is one of the directors of the company.

Jan Vanĕk

Jan Vanĕk has a masters degree in Computer Science from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (1991–1996). He started his software development career in 1998, first in Prague mostly in C++. In 2002, he moved to Mannheim, Germany to work for a company, DCW GmbH, as a Java developer where he continued till the company was sold to SAP AG in 2007. Afterwards, Jan Vanĕk remotely worked for London based Origin Technologies Ltd., developing embedded software in C++ (e.g., Pogo Alert+) for three years. Since 2010, He worked for Mannheim based Libra GmbH as a Java developer till 2019 April.

Regardless of the programming language and environment, he tries to produce quality code particularly in large projects where the complexity (mess and wastage) can be enormous. He believes that by providing the right sub-structure, like component framework, and shifting to proper practice, we can can tame the complexity factor. He prefers statically and strongly typed languages like Scala, Kotlin, Java.

Jan Vanĕk is married, has three children and lives in Czech Republic. He is one of the directors of Trivic s.r.o.