Martin Kiesel
DevOps & Back-end Engineer at Self-Employed
Slovakia
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Top SchoolMartin Kiesel is a DevOps and back-end engineer based in Slovakia with 12 years of experience building and maintaining production services. He has focused on Laravel ecosystems—contributing to widely used packages like nWidart/laravel-modules and Kyslik/column-sortable—where he added module scaffolding commands, fixed icon-related UI bugs, and improved documentation and tests. As a self-employed engineer since 2017 (after earlier Laravel work at KBS development), he combines hands-on backend development with operational responsibilities across deployments and configurations. A master’s graduate in Applied Informatics, Martin pairs academic rigor with pragmatic open-source contributions that improve developer ergonomics. Known for a concise coding persona (“panic(err)”), he brings a straightforward, problem-solving mindset to complex backend and DevOps challenges.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Masters's degree, Applied Informatics, A, Masters's degree, Applied Informatics, A at Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Slovak, English
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Github Skills (28)
file-management10
package-management10
laravel-mix10
configuration-management10
laravel10
phpunit10
php10
management10
codeigniter10
architecture9
testing9
eloquent9
command-line-interface9
json9
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Kyslik/column-sortable
Mar 2015 - Mar 2021
Package for handling column sorting in Laravel 5/6/7/8
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 releases, 1 review, 303 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Martin contributed to a Laravel package designed for column sorting. Their work involved implementing features related to icon display within sortable links, fixing icon-related bugs, and adding documentation. The user also updated the package's configuration files and updated the Readme.md file to reflect these changes.
laravel-5-packagephpsortingcolumn-sortinghandling
nWidart/laravel-modules
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Module Management In Laravel
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 4 PRs, 21 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the development of module management features within the Laravel framework. They implemented commands for creating factories, policies, and rules, enhancing the module's capabilities. Additionally, the user updated tests and modified configuration files to support the new features. Their work focused on expanding the toolset for managing and customizing Laravel modules.
laravellaravel-modulesarchitecturephp
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