Simon Males
Postmaster General at Bitcoin Postcards
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Males is a pragmatic technology leader and former developer with 15 years of experience spanning support, system administration, full‑stack engineering and product leadership. Based in Prague, he has managed and grown teams at Delivery Hero and Trezor, and now leads product efforts for Braiins while running Bitcoin-focused personal ventures like Bitcoin Fax and Bitcoin Postcards. He blends hands‑on coding—contributing to notable open‑source projects such as CakePHP and Foundation—with a product-centric approach that turns stakeholder needs into iterative, deliverable solutions. Comfortable across serverless AWS stacks, UI frameworks and PHP backends, he prioritizes team wellbeing and clear technical requirements when shaping roadmaps. An entrepreneur at heart, he has shipped niche payments integrations (700+ faxes paid in Bitcoin) that reveal a knack for finding practical product-market fits in adjacent spaces.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BInfoTech, Network Management, BInfoTech, Network Management at University of Wollongong
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
mvc-framework10
cakephp10
javascript10
responsive-design10
foundation-sites10
php10
front-end-development10
web-framework10
css9
documentation9
html9
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
validations7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/cakephp
Apr 2011 - Sep 2013
CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily addressed documentation issues and fixed typos within the CakePHP codebase. They corrected inaccuracies in the schema update documentation and resolved an issue where the schema update failed with a specific flag. Additionally, the user made code adjustments related to parsing and handling various parameters and types. These changes include supporting a default parameter in the `View::get()` method and correcting issues related to the `ConsoleOptionParser` and `ClassRegistry::init()`.
php-frameworkormform-buildervalidationpsr-7
foundation/foundation-sites
May 2013 - Sep 2013
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Quickly create prototypes and production code for sites that work on any kind of device.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on improving the Foundation Sites framework's front-end components. They addressed inconsistencies in form elements like radio buttons and checkboxes by consolidating the use of a disable class and introducing a class selector. Additionally, the user updated documentation with examples of dropdown hover functionalities and made code adjustments to handle missing dropdowns. These modifications aimed to enhance usability and overall framework functionality.
cssjavascriptframeworkprototypingprototypes
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