Martin Hlavac
Associate Director Of Engineering
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Hlaváč is an experienced engineering leader with 13 years building web and desktop applications, currently serving as Associate Director of Engineering at Flink in Berlin. He combines hands-on development (PHP, Symfony, JavaScript, MVC) with proven management chops from roles at Wayfair and founding a startup, guiding platform and delivery teams through agile and lean practices. A pragmatic engineer who treats programming as a "superpower," he emphasizes quality and developer experience—evidenced by contributions and PHPUnit tests to the popular calcinai/xero-php library. Martin is passionate about open source and community-driven development, and he enjoys turning small automation scripts into tooling that removes everyday impediments for teams.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bc. Information Technology, Bc. Information Technology at Brno University of TechnologyStřední škola informačních technologií a sociální péče, Brno, Purkyňova 97
English, Czech
Github Skills (8)
php10
oauth10
phpunit10
testing9
apidoc9
xero-api9
api9
curl8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
calcinai/xero-php
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
A php library for the Xero API, with a cleaner OAuth interface and ORM-like abstraction.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 42 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Martin made several contributions focused on improving the Xero PHP library. They fixed curl configuration issues and enhanced the public example, addressing error handling and improving clarity in the code. Additionally, the user added PHPUnit tests, which shows a focus on quality assurance and maintainability. Further refinements to the examples and addition of tests for the core functionality of the library highlight the user's efforts to improve overall code quality and developer experience.
apiphpxerooauth2php-library
Publero/net_gearman
Mar 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:35 commits, 9 comments in 8 months
phpphp-interfacegearman
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