Matej Kontros

Chief technology officer at Turbado Group

Hohberg, Germany

kontros.com

[email protected]

SUMMARY

Over a decade of professional experience in IT - focused on e-commerce, software engineering, web development, systems administration, internet security, managing projects and working in multicultural environments for organisations of all types and sizes, including global players, startups and agencies.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Turbado Group

Remote [Chief Technology Officer]

June 2014 — November 2020 (Turbado Group)

For the last 7 years I hired, trained and managed a remote team of 12 developers. We spent our time designing, developing and maintaining complex e-commerce systems for a group of 18 e-commerce shops in 10 European countries.

UNIT4 Collaboration Software Limited, Now GroupBC

Reading, UK [Senior Solutions Developer]

May 2013 — Jun 2014 (groupbc.com)

Spent a year building complex process management module ProcessPlan focused on thriving building information modeling [BIM] market.

Primrose.co.uk - Meika Ltd

Reading, UK [Senior PHP Developer / Linux Administrator]

October 2012 — May 2013 (primrose.co.uk)

As part of a team of 10 developers we managed 20 eshops in 8 languages under the brand” Primrose”. My main focus was php backend development and db and website speed optimisation.

I.S.D.D. Plus s.r.o.

Bratislava, SK [Senior PHP Developer]

October 2011 — October 2012 (isdd.sk)

One of few projects, I worked on, was project analysis, consultancy and development of customer self support portal for telecom provider Orange Slovakia. It is one of my oldest big projects and it is still live.

Zencart.sk

Remote [Co-founder & Technical Lead] 

January 2006 — December 2017 (Zencart.sk)

Zen-Cart is an open-source ecommerce application, we created the first translation into Slovak language for this project and  provided hosting, plugin development, design and other services for  small to medium sized companies on the Slovak market.

Dutchworld.nl

Remote [PHP Developer and Linux Administrator]

January 2011 —  October 2011 (Dutchworld.nl)

As part of a small team of 3 people, we worked on web design and e-commerce development on the Magento and Zend platform. This small agency provided development and support to few ecommerce brands on the Dutch market and specialized on Magento and Zend framework.

OPEN-SOURCE PROJECTS CONTRIBUTIONS

Zen-Cart Open Source Project — Official Slovak Support

2006 - 2017

Launched and operated the Official Slovak Support Center for the open-source project Zen-Cart.

osCommerce Open Source Project — Official Slovak Support

2006 - 2008

Launched and operated the Official Slovak Support Center for the open-source project osCommerce.

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

The Faculty of Management, Science and Informatics - University of Žilina Slovakia (fri.uniza.sk)

2006 - 2011

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

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