Summary
Jan Galek is a seasoned web developer with 10 years of experience building e-shops, APIs and admin systems using PHP (Nette, Symfony), Docker, and modern front-end stacks like React and Redux. As a freelancer and former backend developer for large retailers, he has delivered production-grade systems including translation platforms, school systems, and complex e-commerce projects. He contributes open-source libraries and maintains personal projects, signaling a drive for reusable, community-facing tooling beyond client work. Comfortable with databases (Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, Elasticsearch) and automated testing (PHPUnit), he emphasizes coding standards, RESTful APIs and maintainable architecture. His background spans both greenfield rewrites and migrating legacy Java shops to PHP, showing a pragmatic approach to modernization. Based in Šumperk, Czechia, he blends hands-on implementation with backend-focused product thinking for business-oriented solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Czech, English, Russian, Slovenian