Tomas Votruba
Impossible Upgrade Pusher at ibelsa
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 (18)
Github contributions (5)
ApiGen/ApiGen
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
PHP 7.1 ready Smart and Simple Documentation for your PHP project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 995 commits, 244 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tomas appears to be primarily focused on refining the API documentation generator. Their commits include adding and refining code for reflection, source code display, annotation filters, and template generators. The user's work involves integrating external components.
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ecsphp/ecs
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
ECS runs PHP-CS-Fixer and PHP_CodeSniffer as a single, parallel fast tool with zero dependencies. Run on PHP 7.2+
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 22 reviews, 6294 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Tomas primarily contributed to the Easy Coding Standard (ECS) project by modifying configuration files, build scripts, and test files. They updated rector configuration, added Monorepo-builder configuration, and made various code style fixes and build process improvements. The user also updated the build process by adding patching, downgrading code and prefixing the codebase for build, indicating experience in managing the project's build and deployment pipeline.
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