Mārtiņš Briedis
Engineering Manager at Printful
Riga, Vidzeme, Latvia
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Top SchoolMārtiņš Briedis is an Engineering Manager based in Riga with 11 years of hands-on full‑stack experience, advancing from senior developer to people and delivery leadership at Printful. He combines deep PHP/Laravel and VueJS expertise with practical testing (PhpUnit), MySQL and AWS knowledge to deliver reliable, localized web applications. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced php-gettext to better extract translatable strings from Vue templates and varied file formats, reflecting a strong focus on internationalization and tooling robustness. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he pairs craftsmanship—he’s also a photography and woodworking enthusiast—with a track record of improving code quality and developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer science, Bachelor, Computer science at Latvijas UniversitateRīgas Mežciema pamatskola
English, Latvian, Russian
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Github Skills (33)
json10
internationalization10
php10
localization10
vue10
i18next10
gettext10
vue-jsx10
mysql9
checkbox9
javascript9
oop9
jquery9
regex9
laravel9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
php-gettext/Gettext
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
PHP library to collect and manipulate gettext (.po, .mo, .php, .json, etc)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Localization/Internationalization Specialist
Back-end Developer & Localization/Internationalization SpecialistContributions:14 commits, 9 PRs, 24 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Mārtiņš primarily contributed to the `php-gettext/gettext` library by adding and modifying features related to the extraction of translatable strings from various file formats, including VueJS template files, PHP code and modifying existing code to handle different newline characters. They implemented a VueJS extractor that parsed VueJS template and script code to find translatable strings. The user also improved the overall functionality of the library by including options, and fixing DOM parsing issues.
collecttranslationphpinternationalizationgettext
briedis/Gettext
Apr 2018 - Sep 2019
PHP library to collect and manipulate gettext (.po, .mo, .php, .json, etc)
Contributions:1 release, 30 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 4 months
collectphpgettextphp-jsonphp-library
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