Branislav Zahradnik
Freelance Software Engineer
Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolBranislav Zahradnik is a pragmatic freelance software engineer with 11 years of professional experience and deep expertise in backend systems, Perl, and database-driven architectures. He excels at modernizing legacy codebases—converting full-page apps to API-driven flows, implementing zero-downtime deployment patterns, and replacing imperative DB operations with declarative, testable data functions. His background spans enterprise roles at Oracle and GoodData and long-term work on SMS gateways and telecom systems, giving him strong operational instincts around reliability and integration. Comfortable with TypeScript, Postgres, Docker, XSLT and even Solidity, he blends systems-level thinking with practical scripting and DevOps. An active contributor to the Perl Weekly Challenge knowledge base, he demonstrates continual curiosity and a knack for creative algorithmic solutions and automated testing. Based in Czechia, he prioritizes readable, maintainable code and finds inventive ways to leverage new tools—recently exploring LLMs to generate dynamic game content.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Automatic Control Systems, Automatic Control Systems at FEI STU, Bratislava, SlovakiaHigh School, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, High School, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at SPSE Piestany, SlovakiaComputer Science, Computer Science at FEI STU, Bratislava
Slovak, English, German, Russian, French
Stackoverflow
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65reached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (7)
solve10
perl10
solution10
algorithms9
common-table-expression6
directed-acyclic-graph6
sql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
manwar/perlweeklychallenge-club
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Knowledge base for The Weekly Challenge club members using Perl, Raku, Ada, APL, Awk, Bash, BASIC, Bc, Befunge-93, Bourne Shell, BQN, Brainfuck, C3, C, CESIL, C++, C#, Clojure, COBOL, Coconut, Crystal, D, Dart, Dc, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Excel VBA, Fennel, Fish, Forth, Fortran, Gembase, GNAT, Go, Haskell, Haxe, HTML, Idris, IO, J, Janet, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lisp, Lua, M4, Miranda, Modula 3, MMIX, Mumps, Myrddin, Nim, Nix, Node.js, Nuweb, OCaml, Odin, Ook, Pascal, PHP, Python, Postscript, Prolog, R, Ring, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, Sed, Smalltalk, SQL, Swift, Tcl, TypeScript, Visual BASIC, WebAssembly, Wolfram, XSLT and Zig.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 20 days
Contributions summary:Branislav contributed solutions to the weekly challenges of the Perl Weekly Challenge club. They implemented Perl solutions for various challenges, including algorithms and data manipulation tasks, as evidenced by the code changes in multiple files. Furthermore, they wrote test scenarios using Test::YAFT to validate their solutions. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of Perl and problem-solving within the context of coding challenges.
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perl-actions/perl-versions
Jul 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:12 reviews, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 11 months
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