Marek Suscak

Head of Engineering, Signals and Inform at Iterate.ai

Marek Suscak is a software engineer who currently works as Head of Engineer at Iterate.ai. Marek has previously worked at Chute and Angie's List.

Marek has designed and developed several product features end-to-end, and authored an open-source, byte-sized date-time library. Marek has also developed a cross-browser extension for Chrome and Safari. During their time at Angie's List, Marek was involved in the architectural decisions mainly regarding the migration of React, React Router and some other libraries to their latest major versions. Marek also worked on the UI performance, site accessibility and compatibility tweaks. Marek was able to significantly reduce the time to build from 30 seconds down to ~4 seconds, and tune the rendering performance of long lists of messages.

Marek Suscak has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Košice and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the same school.

Marek Suscak reports to Jon Nordmark. Some individuals on their team include Brandon Jimenez - Lead Engineer, Megan Macdonald - FE Dev, and James Lukensow - Software. Some of their coworkers include Dave Jenkins - VP, Digital Technology and Marketing, and Niharika Shukla - Legal.




Work style

How I prefer to work

Remote

Afternoon

Mostly in a team

Qualities I value in my colleagues

  • Integrity
  • politeness
  • work ethic
  • curiosity
  • creativity

My communication style

  • Polite
  • overcommunicative
  • proactive
  • thoughtful
  • transparent

My pet peeves

  • Pessimism
  • impatience
  • poor communication
  • disrespectfulness
  • laziness

Fun fact

I appeared in Forbes 30 under 30 at the age of 23.

Personal Q&A

  • How do you like to run meetings?

    Have agenda beforehand, make it efficient and to the point.