Oldřich Šálek
PHP Guild Lead at Packeta Group
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolOldřich Šálek is a seasoned PHP Guild Lead and backend architect with 12+ years of experience building secure, test-driven systems and modernizing large codebases. He combines hands-on engineering (PHP, Symfony, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka) with people leadership—mentoring mid-sized teams, driving CI/CD and code-quality practices, and unblocking delivery across product and engineering. His background spans high-throughput commerce platforms and developer-experience roles where he introduced PHPStan rules, PHP upgrades, and delivery processes that scaled across teams. Pragmatic about technical debt, he prefers focusing on one main product and enjoys refactoring, API and architecture design, and introducing AI tooling to improve developer workflows. Based in Prague, he brings a track record of translating operational bottlenecks into measurable engineering improvements and has a knack for making legacy systems safer and faster.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
React, React at CodeCamp.czInformation Technology, Information Technology at University of PardubiceHigh School, Information Technology, 2009, High School, Information Technology, 2009 at High School Of Electrical Engineerin in Kutna Hora
English, German, Czech
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (156)
pickup10
relational10
nette10
mapper10
points10
database10
git10
doctrine10
gitignore10
merge10
version-control10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
dumper10
google-sheets-api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
citicashio/blockchain-explorer
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:153 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 months
mzk/code-checker
Aug 2015 - Aug 2018
A simple tool to source code against a set of coding standards.
Contributions:5 PRs, 58 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years 1 month
pythonstandardscode-analysis
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