Igor Dobrycky is a Senior PHP and Go developer with 11 years of experience building web applications from scratch and scaling teams of 2 to 12 developers. Based in Prague, he blends hands-on backend engineering with strong Agile leadership, having served repeatedly as Scrum Master and Agile coach across startups and scaleups. He champions XP and Scrum practices while also working deeply in code—contributing to the popular rectorphp/rector project by implementing automated refactoring rules and improving complex PHP upgrade scenarios. His background ranges from CTO and build/release roles to cloud-native stacks (AWS, Docker, GitLab CI), giving him a rare mix of delivery process ownership and day-to-day development. Known for improving developer workflows and test-driven practices, he often pairs coaching with practical automation to increase team throughput. Educated in information security, he brings an appreciation for robust, maintainable systems as well as organizational agility.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Security, IT, Master's degree, Information Security, IT at National Aviation University
Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:66 reviews, 61 commits, 64 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Igor primarily contributed to refactoring and improving the PHP code within the Rector repository. They focused on implementing and updating rules that automatically refactor and upgrade PHP code. The user's work involved creating new features to support more complex refactoring scenarios, such as handling multiple occurrences of classes within strings and improving code readability. They also improved the codebase through refactoring existing code and addressing pull request comments.
Instant Upgrades and Instant Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code
Contributions:39 pushes, 6 branches in 10 days
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