Lars Strojny
Principal Architect at NFQ Solutions GmbH
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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RockstarLars Strojny is a Principal Architect based in Munich with 19 years of experience building high-performance, scalable web systems and engineering organizations. He blends hands-on expertise in PHP, MySQL, OOP/DDD and SOA with leadership experience as CTO and head of development, driving CI/CD, agile and lean practices. Lars is an active open-source contributor to many widely used PHP projects—Symfony components, Composer, PHPUnit and Doctrine—where he focuses on stability, testability and performance. He has deep practical knowledge of caching, queueing (AMQP), and security tooling, often improving test infrastructure and release pipelines. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architectural decisions that balance long-term maintainability with delivery speed. A less obvious strength is his fluency moving between low-level library fixes and organization-wide process improvements, making him effective both in code and in culture.
18 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
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Github Skills (74)
dependency-management10
psr-610
testing10
refactor10
phpunit10
security10
gtk10
build-automation10
symfony-ux10
refactoring10
composer10
mstest10
object-oriented-programming10
webkit10
bundle10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
php-amqp/php-amqp
Oct 2012 - Dec 2021
PHP extension to communicate with any AMQP compliant server
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Release Manager
DevOps Engineer & Release ManagerContributions:2 reviews, 226 commits, 213 PRs in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lars focused on integrating and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline, enhancing the build and release processes. Their contributions included integrating Travis CI for automated testing, enhancing the test reporting, and refining the build process for PHP AMQP extension. Additionally, they managed the release cycle by versioning and packaging updates, ensuring the extension's proper deployment and distribution via PECL.
communicatecompliantphpphp-extensionamqp
lstrojny/functional-php
May 2011 - Dec 2021
Primitives for functional programming in PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 16 reviews, 475 commits in 10 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Lars primarily contributed to the PHP-based functional programming library, `lstrojny/functional-php`. Their work involved implementing various functional programming primitives, including `first`, `last`, `contains`, `drop_first`, `drop_last`, and `group` along with the implementation of the functions: `reduce_left`, `reduce_right`, `zip`, `flatten`, and `memoize`. The user also refactored the code, added error handling, and improved the compatibility of the library with different PHP versions and object implementations.
functional-programmingphpphp7php-libraryprimitives
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