Community Spotlight #8 - Ondřej Janošík

Here at Strapi, we are developing a product that gives everything a developer needs to carry out his project in the best possible conditions.

This is what Ondřej Janošík believes as well, which led him to organize meetups in the Czech Republic sharing his knowledge with the community. If you live in Czech Republic and want to share your knowledge/experience with other people in the community, do not hesitate to attend the meetup organized by Ondřej!

What was your educational background, and what are you doing for a living?

I studied Information Technology at university. When I graduated with my bachelor’s degree, I decided not to continue in my studies. I rather wanted to start a company, my own business. That went quite well and now I am standing here as a CEO of Notum technologies – custom software development agency.

When did you start using Strapi and Why?

I started using Strapi about 2 years ago. Back then it was in a very early stage of development. We are often creating MVPs, in our company. And that’s why I was searing for a tool/framework which allows us to rapidly set up a project with all the necessary things (like authorization, file sharing, administration, etc) but let us keep the freedom of unlimited customizations in my most favorite language JavaScript.And voila! I found Strapi - everything I wanted and much more, even self-hosted.

What is the thing you built with Strapi that you are most proud of?

That would be definitely Levio - our own product for online testing of your development skills. But it is not the one and only! Currently, we are running more than 10 projects on Strapi and next are on their way. Unfortunately, I can´t tell you more about them. You know, our customers like to keep their secrets :)

You organize the Czech meetup, why is it so important for you to share this project around you?

Sharing knowledge and helping others is something I really enjoy. I was already one of the co-organizers of Vue.js meetups here in Czechia. When I read that the Strapi team is looking for people, who could help with community building, I immediately emailed Jim. And what didn’t happen, a month later we organized our first meetup! Take a look at our Youtube channel

It was a new experience for us because of the COVID time we had to do the meet up online. Fortunately went everything quite well in the end. We are already preparing for the next one which will be in the current month (October). Stay tuned!

And why I like to share? I simply believe that Strapi can help a lot of developers to achieve their goals faster, easier, and more fun, so it would be a shame not to share it. Because we are all one big community and together we move development forward.

What will the future look like for you and will Strapi be part of it?

I hope that we will continue with delivering quality software to our customers and building an amazing JS community here in Czechia. Strapi will of course be part of both. I am really looking forward to some of the upcoming features that will allow us to use it even more! If you ever need help with the implementation of Strapi, do not hesitate to contact us on:

https://strapi.io/partners/notum

We will gladly help you.