Jan Smitka
Jednatel A Hlavní Vývojář
Plzeň - město, Plzeň, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Smitka is a co-founder and lead developer with 17 years of experience building web applications and software architectures from Plzeň, Czechia. As Jednatel a hlavní vývojář at Lynt services s.r.o. since 2012, he combines hands-on development in Python/Django with a strong historical expertise in PHP (Nette, Symfony). He is skilled across databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch) and modern frontends (Vue.js, React), and has a track record of improving core backend infrastructure—evident in his contributions to the popular Nette framework where he enhanced caching with tag/priority support and an SQLite3 cache journal. Graduated with honours in Software Engineering from the University of West Bohemia, he brings entrepreneurial ownership to technically complex projects and a pragmatic focus on maintainable architectures. Colleagues describe him as an architect-developer who prefers solving hard technical problems end-to-end.
17 years of coding experience
Gymnázium DěčínMaster's degree, Softwarové inženýrství, Master's degree, Softwarové inženýrství at Západočeská univerzita Plzeň
Github Skills (7)
caching10
php10
sqlite10
nette10
memcached9
netframework9
sql8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nette/nette
Jul 2010 - Aug 2010
👪 METAPACKAGE for Nette Framework components
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jan primarily focused on enhancing the caching capabilities of the Nette Framework by implementing support for tags and priority within the Memcached and ApcStorage backends. They added an SQLite3-based cache journal to manage tags and priorities. The user also refactored the caching components to delegate tag and priority management to the ICacheJournal service, integrating it with existing storage mechanisms.
nette-frameworkphpcomponents-frameworknettemetapackage
jsmitka/Nette-XDebug-Helper
Aug 2010 - Jun 2013
Contributions:9 commits in 2 years 11 months
nette-frameworkxdebugphpstopdebug
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