Jakub Senko
Senior Software Engineer at GoHealth Slovakia
Slovakia
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Top SchoolJakub Senko is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience and a decade-plus professional track record, currently driving engineering at GoHealth Slovakia. He excels at data- and history-driven analysis, strategic thinking, and turning marketing and UX insights into product-first engineering decisions—favoring people problems and outcomes over technical showmanship. Experienced across React/TypeScript/Next.js growth stacks and long-running PHP ecosystems, he has deep practical knowledge from building and monetizing phpBB extensions and numerous freelance projects. Known for ownership, transparency and continuous learning, he thrives in small cross-functional teams where product, design and engineering converge. Notably, his background includes shipping popular paid phpBB extensions and operating across website, pricing and checkout flows that directly impact user onboarding and conversion.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Slovenská technická univerzita v BratislaveHigh School, High School at Bilingválne gymnázium Milana Hodžu v SučanochEngineer’s Degree, Computer Science, Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science at Technická univerzita v Košiciach
Slovak, Czech, English
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Github Skills (6)
php10
backend10
sql10
forum10
refactoring8
refactor8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
phpbb/phpbb
Apr 2012 - Oct 2020
phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:356 commits, 245 PRs, 2 branches in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily focused on implementing backend logic and features within the phpBB forum software. Their contributions involved modifying existing code to utilize variables, correct logic with SQL queries and update the display of content. Further improvements to the code base included refactoring of code snippets, improving code clarity, and renaming code variables to reflect the intended design.
phpphpbbforumbulletin-board
senky/phpbb-ext-ajax-base
Oct 2015 - Feb 2020
This extension will ajaxify your phpBB board. Ajaxifies Who is online, Statistics and Post preview!
Contributions:5 releases, 35 commits, 28 pushes in 4 years 5 months
ajaxifyphpbbstatistics
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