Dalibor Janák
Chief Product Officer at MapTiler
Jeseník, Central Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolDalibor Janák is a geospatial product leader with 12 years of experience evolving from hands-on geospatial web developer to Chief Product Officer at MapTiler. Based in Jeseník, Czechia, he combines deep technical expertise in map tile servers and spatial tooling with product strategy and team leadership cultivated since 2018. His open-source contributions to the popular maptiler/tileserver-php project include adding UTFGrid support and improving tile format compatibility, reflecting a pragmatic focus on interoperability and client-side interactivity. Dalibor’s background in geoinformatics (Master’s and Bachelor’s) and early work in traffic data collection inform a data-driven approach to mapping products. He’s known for bridging developer needs and product vision—shipping features that make complex spatial services easy to host and integrate. Colleagues value his blend of backend engineering chops and product instincts that prioritize real-world usability.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Geoinformatics (Faculty of Science and Informatics), Geoinformatics (Faculty of Science and Informatics) at University of SzegedMaster's degree, Geoinformatika, Master's degree, Geoinformatika at Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Přírodovědecká fakulta
Github Skills (3)
php10
jsonp10
sqlite9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
maptiler/tileserver-php
Mar 2014 - Sep 2021
MBTiles and MapTiler folder hosting with TileJSON, OGC WMTS, UTFGrid interaction and web interface. QGIS & ESRI ArcGIS compatible. Runs on any Apache+PHP webhosting. MapBox Studio Vector Tiles hosting.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:100 commits, 12 PRs, 57 pushes in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dalibor primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the PHP TileServer project. They added support for UTFGrid generation and serving, enabling interactive map features. The commits included modifications to the core `tileserver-mbtiles.php` and `tileserver.php` files, introducing features like JSONP support and fixing routing issues, enhancing the server's ability to serve different tile formats and interact with map clients. These changes increased the server's functionality and improved compatibility with other mapping tools.
webhostingarcgisweb-interfacetilejsonwms
klokantech/www.oldmapsonline.org
Apr 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:99 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 years 2 months
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