Jan Dvořák is a seasoned web applications leader and CEO with 13 years of experience building production-grade platforms, currently steering Literary Universe from Prague. He combines hands-on expertise in MeteorJS, React and GraphQL with a history of meaningful open-source contributions to the Meteor core and community packages (including react-meteor-data and meteor-roles), and has organized the global Meteor Impact conference. As a former CTO who repeatedly delivered fast, production-ready solutions (once in under five days), he blends rapid execution with long-term architecture and developer tooling improvements. Curious and forward-looking, he is exploring SolidJS, Bun, TanStack and modern SQL trends while continuing to shepherd community-driven projects.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Information Technology, Master's Degree, Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at English College in Prague
Meteor packages that provide functionality on mobile and desktop via Cordova plugins.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:10 reviews, 46 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the `mdg:camera` package within the `meteor/mobile-packages` repository. Their work involved updating the camera plugin, including version upgrades and incorporating new features like the `FILE_URI` option for Cordova. They also made changes to examples using the camera package, and the simple-map package, demonstrating a focus on mobile development and integration with the Meteor framework, improving existing functionality and adapting to new versions.
Open source social sign on PHP Library. HybridAuth goal is to act as an abstract api between your application and various social apis and identities providers such as Facebook, Twitter and Google.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:20 releases, 1 review, 223 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily focused on the PHP backend of the HybridAuth library. Their contributions included version bumps, updating the Facebook SDK, fixing a bracket closure, and adding a change log entry. Additionally, they addressed a typo, updated the install.php script, and made several updates to the examples. These modifications suggest a focus on maintenance, updates, and ensuring the library's proper functionality.
social-loginactapisigngoal
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Jan Dvořák - Chief Executive Officer at Literary Universe