Ian Bytchek
Head Of Technology & Product at Secretly
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Bytchek is a technology leader with 12 years of experience who blends hands-on engineering with product stewardship as Head of Technology & Product at Secretly and longtime developer of Gifox. His background spans digital advertising, UX-focused app development, and product engineering for clients like BBC, Sony and Unilever, giving him a strong mix of creative and technical instincts. Ian contributes to high-performance open-source projects such as the Phalcon PHP framework—focusing on testing, bug fixes and backward compatibility—demonstrating attention to code quality and legacy support. He has a knack for defending macOS and Swift apps against piracy while converting adversarial users into customers, and prefers shipping pragmatic, well-crafted solutions over chasing hype. Based in Cardiff, he keeps an active GitHub cataloging a steady stream of small, purposeful projects that reflect his “so little time, so much to code” ethos.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Chartered Institute of MarketingUniversity College London
French, Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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28questions
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Github Skills (23)
extjs10
phalcon10
unit-testing10
app-framework10
phpunit10
php10
web-framework10
selenium9
debug9
oop9
inheritance9
swift9
webextension9
testing8
phpstorm6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
phalcon/cphalcon
Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
High performance, full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C extension.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributes to the Phalcon PHP framework by implementing unit tests, fixing bugs, and improving code compatibility. They added and modified unit tests for session management, ensuring correct behavior. The user also updated code to be compatible with older PHP versions, demonstrating a focus on code quality and backward compatibility. Additionally, they addressed a database-related issue, updating code to use `bindValue` instead of `bindParam` to prevent reference-related issues.
full-stackphpframeworkphalconphp-extension
iby/docker-riak-cs
Jun 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 year 8 months
dockeriseddockeraws-s3aws
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