Jacob Tobiasz
Owner & Holistic Software Engineer (PHP) at Alphpaca
Katowice Metropolitan Area Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Tobiasz is a PHP-focused software engineer and founder with five years of professional experience, blending hands-on backend work with open-source contributions to the Sylius eCommerce ecosystem. He began specializing in Symfony and e-commerce in 2021 and now contributes to Sylius core repositories, improving maintainability, testing, and asset pipelines. As owner of Alphpaca he produces technical content and runs community-facing channels while also working as a software engineer at Commerce Weavers. His current focus is on Web API design, Domain-Driven Design, and application architecture, pairing practical implementation skills with a taste for cleaner, testable code. Based in the Katowice metropolitan area, he combines developer craftsmanship with a creator’s instinct—sharing learnings through blog posts and social media.
5 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology at Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomii i Informatyki w Krakowie
Stackoverflow
894reputation
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Github Skills (26)
docker10
behat10
ecommerce10
testing10
dockers10
webpack10
php10
doctrine-orm10
webpacker10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
twig10
symfony-bundle9
rest-api9
composer8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Sylius/Sylius-Standard
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Open Source eCommerce Application on top of Symfony
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 30 reviews, 13 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacob contributed to the Sylius-Standard repository by improving the handling of assets using webpack, configuring shop and admin entry points and assets, and integrating production configurations within a Docker environment. They added PHP attributes to entity classes, and introduced a rector.php scaffold for code maintenance. Furthermore, the user upgraded PHPStan and removed composer.lock from the .gitignore file.
syliusecommercephpsymfony-bundleecommerce-platform
Sylius/Sylius
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Open Source eCommerce Framework on Symfony
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1058 reviews, 149 commits, 836 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jacob focused on enhancing the Sylius eCommerce framework by implementing several key improvements. They replaced strings with Twig templates to improve code maintainability. Furthermore, they replaced inner joins with left joins in the product repository and removed implementation details from Behat scenarios. They also added data test attributes and scenarios related to missing translations on the product list within the admin panel, suggesting a focus on testing and improving the user experience.
apisyliusecommercephpheadless-ecommerce
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