Jiri Trecak is a founder and CEO with a decade of engineering experience, best known as the founder of Supernova.io, a YC alumnus and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. He blends startup leadership with hands-on full-stack development, frequently shipping production code himself. His open-source work includes Laurine, a Swift localization code generator that produces Swift and Objective‑C output and handles tricky translation edge cases, reflecting a focus on developer tooling. Based in the Czech Republic, he pairs product-first thinking with low-level implementation skills to turn developer pain points into shipped features.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava
Y Combinator
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Applied Informatics, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Applied Informatics at University of Ostrava
Laurine - Localization code generator written in Swift. Sweet!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:86 commits, 20 PRs, 97 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jiri's primary focus was on developing the Laurine project, a Swift-based localization code generator. Their commits demonstrate the implementation of the core functionality of generating Swift and Objective-C code from localization files, including handling different data types and special characters within the translations. Additionally, the user worked on creating an example project, incorporating CocoaPods, and implementing user interface elements, which demonstrates the full-stack nature of their contributions.
Supernova Style Dictionary exporter allows conversion of design system data and elements into valid, production-ready style dictionary JSON definitions
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 11 months
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