Jakub Duras
Senior Product Engineer, Team Lead at epilot GmbH
Slovakia
Summary
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Top SchoolJakub Duras is a Senior Product Engineer and team lead with 12 years of hands-on experience building secure, offline-first web and mobile systems used worldwide, most notably for paperless doping controls at major events including Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022. He combines full-stack craftsmanship—from TypeScript/React frontends to backend integrations and PHP bridges—with product-minded leadership, having grown and mentored teams while driving security assessments that passed multiple independent audits. A pragmatic early entrepreneur who delivered commercial-critical systems as a teenager and later as a consultant, he has led architecture for scalable, multi-timezone data collection and lightweight ML-enabled products. Jakub is also an active open-source contributor, improving front-end UX and upload flows in projects like angular-filemanager and enhancing browser-native reimplementations such as webamp. Based in Slovakia, he balances deep technical ownership with product delivery and a proven knack for turning complex domain requirements into reliable, auditable software.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Univerzita 'Pavla Jozefa Šafárika' v KošiciachMaster of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering at University of Galway
English, Slovak
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
ui-design10
file-manager10
uid10
file-explorer10
front-end-development10
file-upload10
html10
reimplementation10
react10
angular10
typescript9
css9
typescript-types9
performance-optimization9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
joni2back/angular-filemanager
Feb 2016 - Jun 2017
JavaScript File Manager Material Design Folder Explorer Navigator Browser Manager in AngularJS with CSS3 Responsive (with FTP in PHP / Java / Node)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 10 PRs, 133 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily contributed to the frontend of the angular-filemanager project, implementing file upload functionality, including drag-and-drop support. They integrated the ng-file-upload library, creating UI components for file selection and display, and adding a progress bar for uploads. Additionally, they made changes to the backend PHP bridge and overall project structure, demonstrating full-stack involvement.
explorernavigatorbrowserjavascriptcss3
captbaritone/webamp
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Winamp 2 reimplemented for the browser
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 16 commits, 8 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily focused on improving the front-end implementation of the Winamp reimplementation. Their contributions included optimizing UI elements like the marquee and window positioning, enhancing the position bar calculation, and refactoring code for clarity. They also implemented TypeScript type definitions and fixed issues with the add file button handler.
reactbrowserportjavascripthtml5
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