Radovan Šmitala
Senior Software Engineer at C3W
Slovakia
Summary
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Top SchoolRadovan Šmitala is a Senior Software Engineer and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building full-stack web and e-commerce systems, currently contributing at Groupon and leading engineering at C3W. He co-founded and is the main developer of trip.slovakia.travel, blending product ownership with hands-on implementation. His open-source work includes significant front-end contributions to the popular react-mapbox-gl project and back-end/DevOps improvements for the Meta Box WordPress plugin, showing fluency across React, mapping integrations, CI/CD and PHP/Ruby ecosystems. Radovan has a track record of lifting legacy codebases into modern pipelines and adding practical features like field cloning, Supercluster updates, and portal-based rendering for map demos. Based in Slovakia with an MSc in Information Technology and Automation, he combines system architecture, database design, and real-time search experience with a taste for shipping user-facing products that tie geospatial data to compelling interfaces.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Information Technology, Automation, Master of Science (MS), Information Technology, Automation at Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave
English, Slovak, Czech
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
metaboxes10
mapbox-gl10
wordpress10
travis-ci10
php10
custom-fields10
wordpress-plugin10
react10
mapbox-gl-js9
git9
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
jsx8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
wpmetabox/meta-box
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
The best plugin for WordPress custom fields and custom meta boxes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 28 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Radovan primarily focused on enhancing the existing codebase and integrating CI/CD pipelines. They added functionality related to field cloning and multiple value handling within the meta-box plugin. Further, they modified and configured the project to integrate with Travis CI. The commits involved adjusting code and configurations to align with CI/CD standards and improve build compatibility.
custom-fieldsmetawordpress-adminmetadatameta-boxes
alex3165/react-mapbox-gl
May 2019 - Oct 2019
A React binding of mapbox-gl-js
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Radovan primarily contributed to the React-based front-end components within the `react-mapbox-gl` repository. Their work involved updating the `Supercluster` library, merging branches, and modifying core components like `Cluster`, `map.tsx`, and `image.tsx`. They also integrated and modified the example section demos, adding features like rendering children in a portal, and addressing image-related functionality. Furthermore, changes included adapting to updates in the mapbox-gl library.
reactreact-mapbox-glmapboxmapbox-glmap
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