Summary
Ondřej Michálek is a pragmatic PHP software engineer based in Prague with nine years of experience modernizing legacy systems and building well-tested backend services. He has deep Symfony and PHP expertise from roles at Driveto, Collabim and FAVI, bringing strong skills in refactoring, static analysis, CI/CD and scalable data processing (MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch). Recent work includes PHP modernization projects and a brief Golang stint, demonstrating an appetite for pragmatic language choices while favoring PHP for backend architecture. Comfortable with AWS/GCP, Docker and observability tooling, he pairs hands-on coding with a focus on long-term maintainability and testability. Outside typical deliverables he often contributes consistency libraries and tooling to improve team workflow rather than just feature code.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnasium Jana Valeriana Jirsika
Information Systems and Technologies - trust me, I'm an engineer, Development of Information Systems, ✅, Information Systems and Technologies - trust me, I'm an engineer, Development of Information Systems, ✅ at University of Economics, Prague
English, German