Ladislav Prskavec
Software Engineer at portworx
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolLadislav Prskavec is a pragmatic software engineer with 16 years of experience building backend systems in Node.js, Ruby, and Go, based in Prague. He brings production-hardened expertise from roles at Oracle and Apiary and contributes to well-known open-source tools such as dredd and license-checker, where he improved testing, CSV output handling, and interoperability for different hook languages. An organizer of the Prague Golang Meetup, he blends community leadership with hands-on engineering and speaks and podcasts on technical topics. His background includes an MSc from Czech Technical University, and he often surfaces practical fixes—like Excel-friendly CSV tweaks—that quietly improve developer workflows.
16 years of coding experience
MSc. (Ing.), MSc. (Ing.) at Czech Technical University in PragueSecondary Technical School in Liberec
English, Czech, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
unit-testing10
javascript10
testing10
test-runner10
test-framework10
csv-parser10
csv10
unit-test10
api-testing10
test-automation10
perl9
php9
nodejs9
npm8
licensing7
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
apiaryio/dredd
Feb 2014 - Nov 2021
Language-agnostic HTTP API Testing Tool
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:22 reviews, 19 commits, 44 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ladislav focused on expanding the testing capabilities of the `dredd` API testing tool, specifically targeting the integration of new hook languages like PHP and Perl. Their contributions involved adding new tests to the `hooks-worker-client-test.coffee` and `dredd-command-test.coffee` files, including the necessary command execution and configuration for each new language. The user also ensured that the tool handled installation instructions correctly when the worker was not installed.
openapi-validationagnostictest-runnerapi-testingopenapi
davglass/license-checker
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Check NPM package licenses
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 4 days
Contributions summary:Ladislav contributed to the `license-checker` project by adding functionality to retrieve and display license information. They implemented a feature to include a component name prefix in the CSV output, which allows better structuring of the data. Additionally, the user fixed a bug related to character replacement for easier import to Excel, and also wrote tests to ensure the correct behavior of the component prefix.
licensesnpm-packagenpm-checknodejsnpm
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