Tomas Votruba
Codebase Confidence Bench Presser at i6 Group
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolTomas Votruba is a pragmatic PHP engineer and founder of Rector who for 14+ years connects CEO vision with developer execution to modernize legacy codebases and boost code quality. As “Chief Cleaning Officer” he leads automated refactoring initiatives, speaks internationally, and has hands-on contributions to high-profile OSS like PHP-Parser, phpDocumentor and Rector itself. He blends deep backend expertise (Symfony, Doctrine, testing and CI) with DevOps and QA improvements—migrating CI to GitHub Actions and hardening test suites. A certified Gestalt coach with a background in psychology, he uniquely combines technical mentoring and coaching to drive cultural as well as code changes. Notably, his work on Rector and code transformation rules helps teams modernize PHP 5-era code with minimal risk and effort.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY at Masaryk University BrnoInformation Technology, Information Technology at Brno University of TechnologyGestalt Coach, Gestalt Coach at Gestalt Essence
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Github Skills (80)
mautic10
parserator10
google-cloud-platform10
parser10
clientside10
abstract-syntax-tree10
testing10
reflection-api10
php-parser10
phpunit10
ubuntu10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
build-automation10
symfony-ux10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
deprecated-packages/symplify
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
Do you use Symfony, coding standards, PHPStan rule, maintain PHP packages, monorepo... and do you like to be lazy? You'll love the toolkits here! :)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 665 reviews, 9929 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tomas primarily focused on improving the PHPStan rules within the `symplify` repository, contributing to the project's code quality and maintainability. Their work involved fixing multiline expressions in Latte templates, fixing a typo and fixing a bug in an entity class, and addressing various issues related to variable types and method calls. They also worked on various features of the project.
textlintphp-packagesmonorepobehatrule
nikic/PHP-Parser
Aug 2017 - Aug 2022
A PHP parser written in PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 36 commits, 48 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Tomas contributed to the PHP parser, specifically addressing code style issues and modernizing the codebase. Their commits show a focus on using modern PHP features such as short array syntax and strict comparison operators where applicable. The user also worked on applying these code style changes across the test suite. Their contributions indicate a focus on code quality and maintainability.
sql-parserphpstatic-code-analysisastabstract-syntax-tree
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