Markus Machatschek
Inhaber at IT Machatschek e.U.
Styria, Austria
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Top SchoolMarkus Machatschek is an experienced full-stack PHP engineer and founder based in Styria, Austria, with eight years building and maintaining production web applications and developer tools. He has strong open-source credentials, contributing to high-profile Laravel projects like Scout, Telescope and Horizon as well as the Meilisearch PHP client, where he improved integrations, modernized code with PHP 7.4+ features and raised code quality for stricter static analysis. Markus blends backend expertise (search integrations, API clients) with frontend build modernization—migrating assets to Vite, upgrading Bootstrap and removing jQuery—to improve performance and maintainability. He moves comfortably between shipping bug fixes, implementing features and hardening tooling, and has a pragmatic focus on testability, compatibility and security (integrity plugins, cache busting). As an entrepreneur running IT Machatschek and a senior PHP developer at NETPLANET, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with product-minded ownership.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Matura, Informationsmanagement und Informationstechnologie, Matura, Informationsmanagement und Informationstechnologie at Bundeshandelsakademie I Salzburg
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Github Skills (47)
meilisearch10
debugging10
editors10
search-engine10
debug10
javascript10
rich-text10
text-editor10
bootstrap10
apidoc10
laravel-mix10
testing10
css10
sass10
vite10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
meilisearch/meilisearch-php
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
PHP wrapper for the Meilisearch API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 12 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Markus primarily focused on improving the codebase of the PHP wrapper for the Meilisearch API. They implemented explicit type hints, utilized PHP 7.4 language features, and refactored code for improved readability and maintainability. Key contributions included making use of environment variables in PHPUnit tests and fixing issues to align with higher PHPStan levels. The user's work demonstrates a focus on code quality and adherence to best practices within the project.
api-clientapiphpphp-wrappersdk
laravel/scout
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Laravel Scout provides a driver based solution to searching your Eloquent models.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 14 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Markus primarily contributed to integrating the Laravel Scout package with the MeiliSearch engine. They implemented the necessary classes and methods to handle updates, deletions, and searches using the MeiliSearch API. Further contributions included adding configuration options, updating service providers, and ensuring compatibility with different versions of the MeiliSearch client. The user also worked on fixing issues related to data mapping and key handling.
scoutphplaravel-scoutalgoliameilisearch
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