Tomas Majer

Bratislava, Slovakia

Member since July 29, 2015

Tomas is a developer and IT fan. He's worked on many projects over the past 10 years. He has worked on hands-on projects as a developer or team leader, and also later as a solution architect or CTO. He loves challenges and hard tasks, focusing on high availability and performance.

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Portfolio

Freelance
Ruby on Rails, PHP, Node.js
Piano INC.
Node.js, Go, PHP, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
MONOGRAM Technologies
UML, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Elasticsearch

Experience

PHP, 13 years
MySQL, 13 years
PostgreSQL, 7 years
Ruby, 3 years
Ruby on Rails, 3 years
Node.js, 4 years
Scrum, 4 years
Amazon Web Services (AWS), 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Mac, Git, Sublime, Vim, Vagrant, Docker, TDD

The most amazing...

...thing I've designed (and also developed, a bit) is a whole web architecture for a TV company, including streaming and publishing TV content to the internet.

Employment

Developer and Consultant
Freelance
2013 - PRESENT
- Work for clients from beginning of the project to the end.
- Help companies to start developing their new ideas - hire developers, design architecture, and set up processes.
- Create a Ruby on Rails multi language application as a general sharing system used for communication between teams from 5 countries. Also includes voting mechanism for rating users in elections.
- Take over a PHP payment library for Slovak banks that was created in MONOGRAM Technologies and continue with development and upgrading.
- Help an educational company build their platform for selling courses. Define development processes and help with application scaling and performance.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PHP, Node.js
Solution Architect
Piano INC.
2014 - 2015
- Processed client requests and prepared solutions.
- Designed product architecture.
- Helped with team organization - introduced new development techniques.
- Tested performance and moved architecture to AWS.
- Creating a puppet provision suite to automatically create the whole environment for all microservices.
Technologies: Node.js, Go, PHP, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Chief Technology Officer
MONOGRAM Technologies
2012 - 2013
- Supervised 3 development departments: Web (PHP and Rails), C# and C++, and Mobile (Objective-C + Java).
- Budgeted for development.
- Created time estimates and planned work.
- Created offers for clients based on requirements.
- Wrote specifications - UML.
Technologies: UML, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Elasticsearch
Lead PHP Developer
MONOGRAM Technologies
2005 - 2012
- Created, designed, and supervised dozens of web applications.
- Created a publishing platform for a few of the biggest Slovak publishers.
- Integrated with other application from other departments (C# Webpass, SOAP, low-level C++ applications).
- Created a Node.js application for live pushing of data to paying customers watching live video streams.
- Optimized web applications for high availability on certain times.
Technologies: PHP, CakePHP, Typo3, Nette, Node.js, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis

Experience

Piano INC (Development)
https://piano.io/
Worked as Solution architect.
TV JOJ - Slovak Television (Development)
http://www.joj.sk/
Developed and defined the whole architecture for television, including online streaming videos with custom video. Created a custom online video advertisement platform. Developed multiple web portals based on this architecture like video portals, web for online live events, and classic online magazines with articles.
Diagnose.me (Development)
https://www.diagnose.me/
Developed the first version of the product including the front-end website and also whole back-end for handling all orders from the web. Processing medical cases (including various stages) is handled in this system by backoffice staff. Also helped the company to set up their own development team and start with basic it processes like Scrum and continuous integration.
Etrend.sk (Development)
http://www.etrend.sk/
Designing and built the whole publication platform for online and print media. Based on TYPO3 as a front-end for web applications and custom application for handling multimedia contents. Also included a process for creating an article in one place and publish it on web or print. We also used Wordpress (multi-user) for managing the blog platform for all bloggers.
ESET (Development)
http://eset.com/
Built an international website for antivirus company ESET. With the internal sysadmin team, we optimized the website for high availability. We also prepared multi-stage and multi-datacenter deployments and the whole publication life cycle.

Skills

Languages
PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Java, C++, Lisp, Objective-C, C#
Frameworks
Nette, Laravel 5, PHPUnit, Ruby on Rails, Laravel, CakePHP, Bootstrap, Hadoop, Symfony, TYPO3, Zend Framework, Yii Framework
Libraries/APIs
API, React.js, Node.js, Facebook API, jQuery, Payments
Tools
RabbitMQ, Puppet, Vagrant, Behat, Vim, PhpStorm, Docker
Storage
Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Cassandra
Paradigms
Continuous Integration, Test-driven Development (TDD), Scrum, Behavior-driven Development (BDD)
Platforms
Mac, iOS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux

Education

Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering
Slovak Technical Universion - Bratislava
2005 - 2010

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