Richard Laffers
Senior Frontend Engineer at Holland & Barrett
Martin, Region of Žilina, Slovakia
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Top SchoolRichard Laffers is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 15 years of full-stack experience, currently shaping frontend delivery at Holland & Barrett from Martin, Slovakia. He combines deep JavaScript/TypeScript skills with backend fluency in PHP, Go, and SQL databases, having led teams and architecture efforts across embedded testing systems and enterprise web platforms. At Kistler he drove frontend architecture and mentoring for a torque tool testing product, and at MOVYS he led full-stack teams working with Phalcon and Oracle/PostgreSQL. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed and hardened core behavior in the Phalcon PHP framework—improving Oracle SQL dialect generation and model queries—reflecting his attention to robustness across stacks. A curious tinkerer and lifelong learner with a master’s background in earth sciences, he brings methodical problem solving and a pragmatic engineering mindset to complex systems.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Geology/Earth Science, General, Master's degree, Geology/Earth Science, General at Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
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Github Skills (15)
app-framework10
web-framework10
php10
php-extension10
oracle10
oracles10
sql9
extjs9
phalcon9
database-design7
javascript6
codeigniter6
electron6
angular6
image6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
phalcon/cphalcon
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
High performance, full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C extension.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to bug fixes and code enhancements within the Phalcon framework, specifically addressing issues related to the Oracle database dialect and the Model component. They modified the database dialect to correctly generate SQL for the Oracle database and adjusted the Model component to fix a bug in the findFirst method. Additionally, the user regenerated build files and removed a broken Gettext adapter, improving the overall functionality and maintainability of the framework.
c-extensionfull-stackphp-frameworkphalconphp
rlaffers/thinxdebug
May 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
firefoxxdebugdebuggingswitchingadd-on
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