Michal Štrba
Application Developer
Slovakia
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Top SchoolMichal Štrba is an application developer from Slovakia with 14 years of experience building PHP-based backends and React/Redux frontends, currently shipping software at Alma Career Slovakia while running his own web and photography project VirtualTravel.sk. He brings deep hands-on expertise across the full stack—PHP, MySQL, and modern JavaScript—coupled with practical product sense from long-term roles at Profesia and ui42. An active open-source contributor in Go multimedia and graphics projects, he implemented core vector math, OpenGL vertex handling, and WAV/MP3 encoding/decoding for respected libraries like faiface/pixel and faiface/beep, revealing a strong low-level systems and audio-processing aptitude not obvious from his web-focused résumé. Trained in Measuring and Information Technology at STU Bratislava, Michal pairs analytical rigor with a creative bent for imaging and UX, making him effective at bridging infrastructure, performance, and user-facing polish.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate, Measuring and Information Technology, Graduate, Measuring and Information Technology at Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave
English, French, Czech, Slovak
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Github Skills (17)
graphics2d10
mp310
audio-processing10
decode10
vector10
go10
encoding10
encode10
vector-math10
2d10
opengl10
decoder10
game-engine8
algorithm7
algorithms7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
faiface/pixel
Nov 2016 - Apr 2020
A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 996 commits, 71 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Michal's contributions primarily focused on implementing and refactoring the `pixel` library's core components, specifically related to 2D vector operations and OpenGL-based graphics functionalities. They introduced a `Vec` (2D vector) type, including implementations for basic operations such as addition, subtraction, rotation, scaling, dot product, and cross product. Furthermore, the user introduced vertex format primitives, implemented the vertex array (VAO+VBO) and integrated error handling in pixelgl and added basic functionality such as clear color. The changes involved numerous code modifications.
golang2d-gamegamegamedevgamedev-library
faiface/beep
Jul 2017 - Mar 2021
A little package that brings sound to any Go application. Suitable for playback and audio-processing.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 133 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michal primarily contributed to the `wav` and `mp3` packages, focusing on audio decoding and encoding functionalities within the `beep` audio library. They implemented the `wav.Encode` and `wav.Decode` functions, adding features for reading and writing audio data in WAVE format. Additionally, the user integrated the `go-mp3` library to enable MP3 decoding. These changes centered around expanding the library's support for different audio formats, demonstrating a strong understanding of audio processing and file format handling.
golangaudio-processingaudioplaybacksuitable
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