Martin Roček

Senior developer on the tech team, working across the faculty on tools for humanities research. Most of the work falls into three overlapping areas: Building internal web applications end to end — design, frontend, backend — in Next.js, Express, and Laravel. These are the tools departments actually use day to day: workflow systems, data management, the unglamorous infrastructure that makes research admin less painful. Sitting between the technology and the researchers. A lot of my job is translation: helping humanities projects figure out what they actually need technically, sketching architectures, and making sure the computational side stays approachable for people whose background isn’t in code. Full-stack engineering on top of that — frontend interfaces and backend APIs built around the shape of academic data, which rarely looks like anything a standard CRUD app expects.

Freelance design and frontend development, working with founders and small teams who need both handled by one person. Visual identity work — logos, brand systems, type and colour decisions — through to high-fidelity interfaces built in React (sometimes Vue, with Laravel on the backend when the project calls for it). Most engagements run end to end: starting with the brand or the blank page, ending with a site or product that's actually shipped. The design leads, the code follows — but I'm the one doing both, so nothing gets lost in translation between the two. Small, considered work for people who notice the details. Or, put another way: I'm the designer who writes React, and the developer who spends too long picking the right weight of a typeface.

Worked on various digital humanities applications and approaches.