Petar Sambolek
Magento 2 Certified Professional Developer at WOOM
Osijek, Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolPetar Sambolek is a Magento 2 Certified Professional Developer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading Magento/Adobe Commerce projects from backend architecture to team delivery. Based in Osijek, Croatia, he’s earned five Magento certifications and currently applies that expertise at WOOM after leadership and senior roles at Gauss Development and Trive. He’s led teams of 10, introduced productivity-driving processes, and handled project architecture and estimations, blending technical depth with practical delivery. An active contributor to the Magento ecosystem, he improved ElasticSuite’s backend search and product indexing—adding SKU handling and fixing bundle-product indexing issues that boosted data accuracy and storefront behavior. Trained in electrical engineering and web development, he brings a systems-minded approach to e-commerce problems and a track record of turning complex requirements into stable, maintainable Magento extensions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Technician, Computer Science, Computer Technician, Computer Science at Tehnička Škola KutinaWeb developer, Magento, Wordpress, Zend, OOP, PHP, Web developer, Magento, Wordpress, Zend, OOP, PHP at Gauss InformatikaBachelor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science at Elektrotehnički fakultet Osijek
English, German, Croatian
Github Skills (15)
plugin-development10
amazon-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
backend10
aws-elasticsearch10
back-end-development10
magento10
drupal-module10
elasticsearch-api10
package-development10
sql8
javascript7
front-end-development6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Smile-SA/elasticsuite
Sep 2017 - Sep 2021
Smile ElasticSuite - Magento 2 merchandising and search engine built on ElasticSearch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 4 years
Contributions summary:Petar primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the Magento 2 ElasticSuite module. Their work involved adding and modifying features related to product data handling, including adding the SKU to the product model and implementing product sorting. They addressed a bug related to indexing bundle products and updated the codebase to include dependencies for frontend components. These changes improved data accuracy and frontend display functionality.
merchandisingmagento-2magento2search-engineelasticsearch
trive-digital/fiskal
Jun 2017 - Mar 2018
Magento 2.1 module to connect to FINA (Croatian Financial Agency).
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 8 pushes in 8 months
financialmagento-2magento2-moduleagencymagento2
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