John Madrak
Founder, Tech & Product Booktower at LeadVantage
Town of Clifton Park, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Madrak is a founder and product-minded software leader with 11+ years of hands-on engineering experience and 15+ years building products across education, logistics, media, and entertainment. He blends backend engineering and test automation expertise—contributing to projects like php-vcr to make HTTP-driven tests deterministic—with product leadership, having led multiple engineering teams and grown one by a third. John currently builds Booktower, a whimsical reading-tracker that reached 10,000+ users and 1M+ tracked items in its first year, while also serving as Product Development Architect at LeadVantage. He excels at elevating team craft through mentorship and direct contribution, shipping systems that handle billions of records and APIs with millions of daily calls. Known for favoring small, passionate teams, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic focus on measurable user delight.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Incomplete) Digital Art and Multimedia Design Technical Track, Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Incomplete) Digital Art and Multimedia Design Technical Track at La Salle UniversityLa Salle College High School
Stackoverflow
850reputation
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Github Skills (15)
php10
vcr10
api-testing10
test-automation10
phpunit10
webservice9
paypal6
html6
css6
doctrine-orm6
javascript6
jquery6
anchor6
symfony6
paypal-ipn6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
php-vcr/php-vcr
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on enhancing the `php-vcr/php-vcr` library, a tool for recording and replaying HTTP interactions in PHP testing. Their work involved implementing and refining modes for handling HTTP requests (new_episodes, once, none), adding validation, and updating the codebase to improve exception handling within the library's core functionality. They also created and updated various tests to validate the functionality of the library, making sure it behaved as expected.
php-vcrphpaccurate-testsreplayphpunit
MadrakIO/streamperk-core-bundle
Mar 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 96 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year
bundlephpsymfony
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