An independent developer for companies that care how things are made.

My name is Antonín Šimkanin. I build websites and web applications for Czech and international clients. The work covers frontend development, website builds and the technical side of marketing — SEO, performance, analytics.

Most of the time I work in two modes: as a front-end developer inside a team, delivering part of a larger whole, and as an independent supplier taking a project from brief to launch. Both have their place.

What interests me is whether a thing still works in five years. That is a different question from whether it looks good today — and the answers live in details nobody sees.

Front-end

React, Angular, Nette/Latte, JavaScript

Markup & styling

HTML, CSS, SCSS/LESS, Bootstrap

CMS & platforms

WordPress, Elementor, Gatsby, Astro

Tooling

Node.js, Git, PHP

Marketing

SEO, social media, analytics, campaigns

The companies and organisations I have worked for — inside teams and as an independent supplier. The detail on each role is in the CV.

  1. 01 Clinical Research Center
  2. 02 Studio Fresh Net
  3. 03 CBRE
  4. 04 The Information Factory
  5. 05 Transmutace
  6. 06 Czech Pirate Party
  7. 07 TNTsoft

Antonín Šimkanin

I started at eleven because I wanted to know how a page actually comes into being. It stuck. HTML and CSS became JavaScript, which became Angular, React, Nette — and the marketing side came with it, once I worked out that building a site is only half the job.

Most of that work was invisible. The invoice went to the agency; the code went to the client. That's fine. It means the work was good enough to be trusted.

Good work shows in the details nobody notices — because they work.

Beyond development I enjoy marketing: campaigns, analytics, content. For years I ran the digital communication of two shopping centres and worked on campaigns and graphics for regional politics. That experience changed how I think about websites — a technically perfect site nobody arrives at is just an expensive business card.

If you have read this far, you are probably the kind of person who reads things carefully. Those are the people I work with best.
antonin@simkanin.cz