Paweł Płotka
Senior Software Developer at LIBRUS spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością sp. k.
Gdynia, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolPaweł Płotka is a Senior Software Developer based in Gdynia, Poland, with 12 years in professional engineering and over eight years specializing in PHP. He focuses on craftsmanship and software architecture, having designed services for distributed systems, worked extensively with PostgreSQL and Kubernetes, and driven architectural decisions across multiple companies. Paweł contributes to the PHP ecosystem—improving PHPStan's Symfony extension by adding precise type inference for Request sessions and addressing tooling quality issues—demonstrating attention to static analysis and code health. His background spans hands-on development, QA-minded backend work, and business-facing collaboration, enabling pragmatic solutions that balance engineering rigor with stakeholder needs. Paweł holds an MEng in Computer Science from Gdańsk University of Technology and brings a steady track record of improving maintainability and reliability in production systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Gdańsk University of Technology
English
Github Skills (8)
static-code-analysis10
php10
phpstan10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
testing10
type-checking9
typehinting9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
phpstan/phpstan-symfony
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Symfony extension for PHPStan
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 issue in 2 days
Contributions summary:Paweł primarily contributed to enhancing the PHPStan static analysis tool for Symfony projects. Their work focused on type-specifying `Request::getSession` based on `Request::hasSession`, which involved modifying and creating new extension classes. They implemented and tested this functionality, as evidenced by the test files and supporting rules. Furthermore, the user fixed code style and PHPStan errors, demonstrating attention to code quality and adherence to project standards.
static-analyzertestingphpsymfony-bundlestatic-code-analysis
pplotka/local-php-security-checker-github-actions
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Run Local PHP Security Checker via GitHub Actions.
Contributions:3 releases, 11 commits, 7 PRs in 11 months
checkerphp-securitysecurityphplocal-php-security-checker
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