Andrej Baran
DevOps Platform Tech Lead
Prague, Prague, Slovakia
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Top SchoolAndrej Baran is a DevOps Platform Tech Lead based in Prague with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native platforms and developer tooling. He leads platform initiatives at Footshop, blending infrastructure automation, Kubernetes/Docker expertise, and pragmatic team leadership to streamline dev-to-prod workflows. His background spans frontend and mobile development—shipping satellite-imagery analytics UIs and multiple iOS/Watch apps—so he bridges user-facing concerns with reliable backend operations. Early-career roles in sysadmin and server-side development underpin a strong foundation in networks, security, and scalable web architectures. Andrej is also an open-source contributor to the TypeScript project, having helped add ES2017/async-await support to the compiler, reflecting a willingness to tackle language-level challenges. Colleagues describe him as a multipurpose engineer who pairs deep technical breadth with a focus on developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bc., IT, Software Development, Network Systems, Bc., IT, Software Development, Network Systems at Univerzita 'Pavla Jozefa Šafárika' v Košiciach
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Github Skills (13)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
typechecker10
compiler-development10
language-design9
pyusb6
yii6
php6
python6
nxt6
imap6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/TypeScript
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 30 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Andrej contributed to adding support for ES8/ES2017 target to the TypeScript compiler, enabling the compilation of async/await features. They modified the compiler and transformer files to include new language versions, adding new keywords, and adjusting existing code to support ES2017 features like await. The user also updated tests to validate the new ES2017 target, including handling asynchronous functions and await expressions.
javascripttypescripttypechecker
SpaceKnow/alt
Sep 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:13 PRs, 11 pushes, 16 branches in 6 years 7 months
javascripttypescriptfluxisomorphic
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