Summary
Jan Markup is a pragmatic PHP-focused engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and running backend teams and long-lived product codebases from Prague. He has led teams at major Czech e‑commerce brands, shepherding migrations and integrations (WMS, Kubernetes/Docker, RabbitMQ) while promoting refactoring and rigorous code review as first-class practices. Comfortable hands-on in PHP, Symfony, Doctrine and MySQL, he also brings Java experience and a history of operating multi-person backend teams and CI/CD pipelines. Jan prefers close collaboration between developers and business owners to avoid the usual friction, and he often chooses maintainability over short-term hacks.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masarykova univerzita Brno, Fakulta informatiky
Czech, English, German