Vojtech Polivka
Distinguished Developer at Kyvo Technologies
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolVojtech Polivka is a Distinguished Developer and technology leader with 11 years of experience architecting and shipping complex, cross-platform software while scaling international engineering teams. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at EDealer—from Senior Java Developer to VP of Product & Engineering—and now splits his time between a senior engineering role and co-founding Kyvo Technologies. Hands-on contributor to open-source, he’s fixed nuanced Kotlin/GraphQL mapping issues in the widely used graphql-java-tools library, showing attention to API correctness and robust input handling. Based in Cranbrook, BC, he combines systems-level thinking from a background in cybernetics with product-focused delivery, often bridging deep technical implementation with strategic product decisions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Cybernetics and Control Engineering, Bachelor's degree Cybernetics and Control Engineering at University of West Bohemia, Pilsen
Github Skills (9)
kotlin10
graphql10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
java9
jvm9
graphql-java9
javas9
spring-boot7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
graphql-java-kickstart/graphql-java-tools
Sep 2019 - Dec 2021
A schema-first tool for graphql-java inspired by graphql-tools for JS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 40 reviews, 93 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Vojtech primarily contributed to enhancing the `graphql-java-tools` library, focusing on features related to handling optional input arguments and fixing related mapping issues within the Kotlin code base. Their work involved modifying the `MethodFieldResolver.kt` file to correctly map and process optional input arguments and addressing test failures. Furthermore, the user contributed to renaming package names within the project, demonstrating involvement in project restructuring tasks.
spring-bootgraphql-javagraphql-toolsjvmkotlin
vojtapol/advent-of-code
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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