Jan Uhlář
Software Developer At Productboard
Ostrava Metropolitan Area Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Uhlář is a seasoned Ruby on Rails developer with over a decade of hands-on experience building APIs and web applications, currently contributing to Productboard. He brings deep expertise in backend systems and data stores—PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis and Neo4j—plus practical experience with Kafka, Sidekiq and Docker for resilient, scalable services. His background spans consulting and product work at TopMonks and enterprise projects involving Java/J2EE and Spring, giving him a pragmatic view of integration and legacy modernisation. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs Rails and StimulusJS-driven UIs with JSON:API design and pragmatic DevOps practices. Based in the Ostrava area, he combines a Master’s in Computer Science with a track record of shipping production-ready systems and advising teams on architecture and performance. An understated strength is his longevity in the ecosystem—20+ years working with Ruby and related tooling—bringing institutional knowledge that speeds up real-world problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer science, Master, Computer science at Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava
English, Czech
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Github Skills (56)
rails-gem10
searching10
search-interface10
bootstrap9
twitter-bootstrap9
ruby9
rails9
sql9
activemodel9
twitter-bootstrap-rails8
activerecord8
launchdarkly8
ruby-on-rails8
authentication8
sidekiq8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ciihla/ruby-eet-cz
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
EET wrapper for Ruby
Contributions:23 commits, 8 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 months
ruby
productboard/ruby-server-sdk
Jul 2021 - May 2023
LaunchDarkly Server-side SDK for Ruby
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
launchdarklyrubysdkserver-sidemirror
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