Martin Hujer
Senior PHP And Symfony Developer at Freelance / self-employed
Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolMartin Hujer is a Senior PHP and Symfony developer based in Prague with 15 years of experience building and maintaining robust backend systems for web and e‑commerce platforms. He combines deep expertise in Symfony, Doctrine, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ and MySQL with a strong focus on test quality and cross‑platform compatibility, evidenced by contributions to well-known OSS projects like PHPUnit, PHPStan, Zend Framework and the official Elasticsearch PHP client. As a longtime freelancer and former CTO/lead developer, he pairs hands‑on coding with mentoring, code reviews and build automation improvements (Phing, JsHint, PHP_CodeSniffer). Notably, his open‑source work often targets test infrastructure and portability—fixing flaky tests, OS compatibility and performance hotspots—showing a pragmatic commitment to reliability beyond feature work.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Economics, Informatics, Bachelor's, Economics, Informatics at Prague University of Economics and BusinessMaster's degree, Information Technologies, Master's degree, Information Technologies at University of Economics, PragueGrammar school, English, Czech, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Filosophy, Grammar school, English, Czech, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Filosophy at Gymnázium Dr. Randy Jablonec nad Nisou
Czech, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (53)
assertion10
compatible10
c-language10
static-analysis10
mstest10
multiplatform10
clientside10
ecommerce10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
zend-framework10
internationalization10
cross-platform10
teste10
phpunit10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
zendframework/zf1
Jun 2013 - Dec 2015
This project reached its end-of-life on 2016-09-28. Contains conversion of ZF1 subversion repo to git, from version 15234 forward, and only containing master and release-1.12 branches and 1.12 tags.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:80 commits, 15 PRs, 47 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Martin's contributions primarily focused on fixing and improving the test suite for the Zend Framework version 1. This involved addressing issues across various components like Zend_Search, Zend_View, Zend_Form, Zend_Validate, and Zend_Navigation. They addressed compatibility issues with different PHP versions and operating systems, specifically Windows. These commits demonstrate a focus on ensuring the stability and cross-platform compatibility of the testing infrastructure.
subversionzf1
elastic/elasticsearch-php
Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
Official PHP client for Elasticsearch.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:33 commits, 29 PRs, 92 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on improving the quality and robustness of the Elasticsearch PHP client through comprehensive testing. Their contributions involved adding and refining tests, including those for YAML test scenarios. They addressed code quality issues, implemented strict type declarations, and corrected invalid test setups, contributing to a more reliable and well-tested client. The user also made adjustments to test configurations and file handling to ensure the tests are up to date.
elasticsearchphp
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