Jan Voracek
Staff Software Engineer at Shoptet
Ostrava, Moravia-Silesia, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Voracek is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in backend systems, DevOps, and platform architecture, currently driving cross-team technical initiatives at Shoptet. He focuses on scalability, reliability and developer experience, having led zero-downtime cloud migrations, managed GKE clusters, and built CI/CD and monitoring solutions. Jan is the inventor and original author of VersionPress, an open-source Git-based version control approach for WordPress, reflecting his knack for pragmatic, auditable tooling. He mentors engineers, shapes long-term technology choices, and improves frontend developer workflows while keeping solutions simple and maintainable. Based in Ostrava, Czechia, he combines deep hands-on engineering with community building and event organization. An uncommon strength is his ability to bridge product-facing frontend needs with robust backend and operations practices, turning complex platform concerns into developer-friendly workflows.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
IT – hardware,software,network, IT – hardware,software,network at VOŠ OT a SŠ ŠtětíDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, IT (studies discontinued), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, IT (studies discontinued) at University of PardubiceMaster, IT, Master, IT at Univerzita Pardubice, Fakulta elektrotechniky a informatiky
English, German, Czech, Russian
Github Skills (9)
wordpress10
wp-cli10
git10
php10
composer9
devops9
dependency-management9
build-automation8
phpunit6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
versionpress/versionpress
Apr 2013 - Jan 2019
Git-based version control for WordPress. Whoa!
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 1444 commits, 118 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the VersionPress project by implementing new features within the `wp-content/plugins/versionpress/src/Cli/vp.php` file related to cloning functionality and managing the project's configuration. They also made changes in the `versionpress-functions.php` and utilized WP-CLI commands. Furthermore, the user was involved in maintaining the project structure and dependency management, particularly for Composer packages as evidenced by the changes in Gulpfile.js. They demonstrated DevOps expertise by working with the CI/CD pipeline and overall site management.
version-controlwordpressversionpressstagingdatabase
GDGPardubice/design-patterns-in-action
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:27 commits in 28 days
gdgjavapardubice
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