Edgars Eglītis
PHP Developer at iNET SIA
Riga, Latvia
Summary
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Top SchoolEdgars Eglītis is a PHP developer with five years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications across Latvian media and technology firms, currently working at iNET SIA in Riga. He progressed from junior full-stack roles to production-focused development at LETA, showing a practical blend of backend PHP expertise and end-to-end feature delivery. Beyond day-to-day engineering, Edgars contributes to the popular Appium open-source project as an automation/test engineer and maintainer, where he has improved dependency management and documentation tooling—an indicator of attention to long-term maintainability. He combines academic training in programming engineering from Vidzeme University with practical experience in CI/CD and documentation deployment. Colleagues would note his knack for tidying infrastructure and developer tooling, not just shipping features. Ambitious and detail-oriented, he balances pragmatic coding with contributions that help teams run and scale more smoothly.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Professional bachelor's degree in information technologies, Programming engineering, Professional bachelor's degree in information technologies, Programming engineering at Vidzemes Augstskola / Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences
Latvian, English
Github Skills (10)
appium10
webdriverio10
test-automation10
javascript9
nodejs9
command-line-interface8
cli8
command-line8
cicd8
documentation7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
appium/appium
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Cross-platform automation framework for all kinds of apps, built on top of the W3C WebDriver protocol
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Automation Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:231 reviews, 192 PRs, 131 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Edgars primarily focused on updating dependencies and refactoring code related to the `execute-driver-plugin`, specifically updating the webdriverio dependency. They also made changes to the documentation build process by updating the `mike` dependency and associated arguments, which suggests involvement in documentation deployment and maintenance. The commits also included adjustments to CLI output messages.
test-automationwindowsappiumw3c-webdriverframework
eglitise/appium-inspector
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
A GUI inspector for mobile apps and more, powered by a (separately installed) Appium server
Contributions:920 pushes, 504 branches, 2 tags in 2 years
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