Taufek Johar
Chief Technology Officer at CaterSpot
Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Top SchoolTaufek Johar is a pragmatic technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Kuala Lumpur with over 10 years of experience building scalable web platforms and developer workflows. He combines hands-on engineering in Ruby on Rails, React and DevOps with a strong emphasis on best practices, CI/CD and test automation—having introduced comprehensive CI and developer workflow improvements at multiple companies. A seasoned team lead and mentor, he champions pair-programming and code reviews to grow engineers and improve delivery cadence. He also contributes to open-source tooling around Git hooks, adding PHPStan and PHPUnit integrations to strengthen code quality in CI pipelines. Taufek’s background spans marketplaces, internal HR systems and e-commerce, reflecting a practical ability to translate product needs into maintainable architecture and developer-friendly processes.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation Studies, Computer Science, Foundation Studies, Computer Science at Sunway University CollegeBachelor of Science, Management Information System, Bachelor of Science, Management Information System at Upper Iowa UniversityBachelor of Science, Management Information System, Bachelor of Science, Management Information System at Kolej Universiti HELP
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Github Skills (10)
automation10
automations10
cicd10
git-hooks10
phpunit9
branches9
manage9
bash8
testing8
git7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sds/overcommit
Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 18 PRs, 41 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Taufek primarily contributed to the automation and management of the Git hook system. Their work focused on enhancing the pre-push context by incorporating the ability to check for changes in modified files and lines. They introduced features to handle multiple branch pushes, ignore hooks during branch deletions, and skip hooks based on remote names and branch patterns. Furthermore, the user added a PhpStan hook and PHPUnit hooks to the pre-commit and pre-push actions respectively, indicating a focus on code quality and testing within the CI/CD pipeline.
reactconfigurablehook-managergit-hooksgit-hook
taufek/blog
May 2020 - May 2022
My Blog
Contributions:5 PRs, 85 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
my-blogjekyllruby
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