Tomas Juhaniak is a senior front-end developer based in Bratislava with 14 years of experience building web applications across startups and product teams. Currently leading front-end work at Garwan, he has a strong background in full-stack web development from roles at RIESENIA.com (where he served as CTO on GitHub) and Finecon Technologies. Tomas contributes to notable open-source projects such as CakePHP, where he has improved core ORM and JSON/time handling and helped integrate PHPStan, reflecting a comfort with both backend internals and tooling. He combines practical engineering—shipping economic and enterprise web apps—with an eye for maintainability and test coverage. Known for bridging front-end polish and backend robustness, he brings academic training from the Slovak University of Technology and a pragmatic, hands-on approach to complex product challenges.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Informatics, Engineer's degree, Informatics at Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology
CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:15 commits, 8 PRs, 31 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tomas primarily contributed to the CakePHP framework by modifying core files related to time formatting and database interactions. Their work included implementing a feature to set JSON encode formatting, replacing timezone identifiers, and updating logic within the ORM TableLocator class. The user also made several changes related to test cases to support those changes. They also contributed to the project's PHPStan integration.
Contributions:8 releases, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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