jan.vdovec@gmail.com

Ján Vdovec

PHP Backend Developer

I am a PHP backend developer with many years of experience in the development of internet applications. I have worked on projects of various sizes and complexity. From various CMS, e-shops, and aggregators to SaaS tools. I am a quick learner, I like challenges, and I am independent. In the team, I like to push junior colleagues forward, I communicate technical problems to senior management.

What am I looking for? Ideally place where newer technologies will be used, where code quality is taken care of, where testing is done.

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Technological skills

PHP - from 5.6 to 8.2 version
80%
Framework Laravel - from 5.4 to 10 version
85%
DBMS - PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB...
80%
Git
80%
C++, Java, Python
30%
Artificial Intelligence - AI
30%
Docker
60%
DevOps
50%
Cloudflare Workers (serverless)
40%
Amazon Web Services ecosystem
60%
HTML, CSS, JS
70%

Other skills

Search Engine Optimization - SEO
80%

Soft skills

Communicativeness
80%
Perfectionism
90%
Mentoring
85%
Self-development
80%
English - reading
90%
English - writing
70%
English - speaking
60%

Experiences

TheShop

September 2022 - Jun 2023

Position: Senior backend developer

Description: Development of a PaaS tool for headless ecommerce.

Used technologies: PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Docker, Digital Ocean ecosystem, REST API, consuming 3rd party APIs

Kontentino

Jun 2020 - Jun 2022

Position: Senior backend developer, then Lead backend developer

Description: Development of a SaaS tool for publishing content on social networks.

Used technologies: PHP, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS ecosystem, microservices, REST API, consuming 3rd party APIs

BRACKETS by Triad

January 2020 - May 2020

Position: Fullstack developer

Description: Fullstack work on various client projects.

Used technologies: PHP, Laravel, Docker, PostgreSQL

Hellvetia - SEO agency

2018 - 2019

Position: Fullstack developer

Description: Development of own internal system to streamline processes in the agency.

Used technologies: PHP, Laravel, MySQL

CMS for a multilingual review website

2016 - 2017

Position: Backend developer, Product Manager, Product owner

Description: A CMS that is adapted to create reviews and product comparisons as easy as possible.

Used technologies: PHP, Laravel, MySQL, CDN, multilingual

System for an overview of expiring .sk and .cz domains

2014 - 2017

Position: Backend developer, Product Manager, Product owner

Description: A SaaS system that monitors several different metrics for domains that are going to expire in the next few days with advanced user notification capabilities.

Used technologies: PHP, Codeigniter, MySQL, consuming 3rd party APIs, microservices, REST API, multilingual, advanced distributed batch work processing, Paypal

CMS for team-building events

2013 - 2015

Position: Backend developer

Description: A system that completely covered one type of team-building event. The system generated a calendar with time slots that could be booked. A stopwatch with the option to store time in the database showing leaderboards at the event location was also included.

Used technologies: PHP, Codeigniter, MySQL, implementation security improvement based on a penetration test

Centralized CMS for dozens of websites

2013

Position: Backend developer

Description: A centralized CMS that handled the content management for dozens of websites from a central location. The CMS generated static HTML files for individual websites and was not demanding on hosting.

Used technologies: PHP, Codeigniter, MySQL, consuming 3rd party APIs

E-commerce system

2012 - 2016

Position: Fullstack developer

Description: A tailor-made solution for a clothing e-store handling peaks in traffic - at the approximate time of the release of new collections. Most of the items were one-piece and the requirement was for real-time stock.

Used technologies: PHP, Codeigniter, MySQL, CDN, Paypal, SMS gateway

CMS for TV shows community web

2010

Position: Fullstack developer

Description: A simple CMS for its time, one of the most visited TV show websites in Slovakia (about 100,000 UIPs per day). The system used advanced caching and was very undemanding in hosting.

Used technologies: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, jQuery

Code example

Cloud video conversion using AWS -> GitHub project

Education

University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava

2005 - 2008

Faculty of Natural Sciences - department of informatics - obtained Bc. degree

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU)

2008 - 2010

The Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava - field of applied informatics and automation in the industry - obtained Ing. degree

Contact

jan.vdovec@gmail.com