Viktor Szépe
Consulting Operations
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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RockstarViktor Szépe is a hands-on consulting operations engineer based in Budapest with 13 years of experience delivering stable, secure, and high-performance web applications. As a self-employed DevOps and backend specialist he focuses on modern infrastructure, CI, static analysis and technical debt reduction, turning maintenance into measurable product sustainability. Viktor is an active open-source contributor across prominent PHP and WordPress ecosystems—improving tooling like phpstan, Laravel, WP-CLI and WooCommerce—and has practical experience integrating authentication and CI into projects such as s3ql. Detail-oriented and pragmatic, he often surfaces small but impactful fixes (typos, PHPDocs, static-analysis corrections) that improve long-term reliability. Currently researching better UX for e-commerce, he combines operator instincts with developer discipline to make web applications “happy.”
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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933kreached
11answers
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Github Skills (119)
woocommerce10
wordpress-themes10
python10
testing10
plugin-development10
bash10
navigationbar10
navigation-drawer10
code-analysis10
build-automation10
symfony-ux10
bootstra10
refactoring10
backend10
graphql-api10
Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
larastan/larastan
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
⚗️ Adds code analysis to Laravel improving developer productivity and code quality.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 225 reviews, 167 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Viktor primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and Laravel integration for the larastan project. Their contributions included refactoring the Laravel test script, addressing shallow repository errors within the CI environment, and ensuring the tests were robust across different configurations. They also made changes to support new PHPStan versions and address issues in code analysis related to Laravel's framework, demonstrating a focus on maintaining and improving the project's core functionality.
productivityphpdeveloper-productivityphpstancode-quality
thecodingmachine/safe
Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
All PHP functions, rewritten to throw exceptions instead of returning false
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 10 PRs, 19 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Viktor's contributions primarily involve modifying and enhancing the codebase to align with the repository's core function of wrapping PHP functions with exception-throwing equivalents. They fixed comments, updated configuration files, and refactored code for consistency. The user also introduced changes related to Cubrid database interaction, modifying functions to ensure proper exception handling within the project's safe functions framework.
functionsrewrittenphpthrowphp-functions
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