Jan Molak

“Jan is one of the most technically talented NodeJs developers I’ve worked with. His depth and breadth of knowledge across methods and disciplines of software product development is extensive. Jan has a propensity towards coaching and education which would be a valuable asset to almost any software team that is able to harness it. ”

“I greatly enjoyed working with Jan in his position as Technical Coach. We worked together for close to a year and throughout he maintained a constant positive and helpful attitude. This was a great help to the team and myself in terms of morale. As his title suggests, he is highly skilled technically. Even though I was an experienced lead developer I have learned a lot from him beginning with the test automation framework which he is the main author of, serenity JS. Thus I have come to admire both his technical skill and his dedication to the open source community. Throughout our year together I have found him a great ally in improving our team's coding and agile practices. He was the main driver behind many of our good tools, frameworks, practices and code patterns. He displays high initiative and high energy always on the look out for someone to help on a coding task, usually by pairing, or ready to offer advice on a planning session. He does not shy away and in fact seeks the most technically difficult work to help with. I would highly recommend Jan as an addition to your coding team. He is an improver, he will seek out the teams pain points and then make them better. ”

“I'm certain anyone who has worked alongside Jan would agree with me when I say, Jan's technical knowledge and coaching style bring indispensable value to any programme he is involved with. The depth and breadth of his skills have impacted our architecture, our test framework, our specifications and a lot more besides, bringing tremendous value to the business. I highly recommend Jan to any team.”

“Jan is a great Agile and TDD coach. A super-nice guy who's always willing to help and share his knowledge of the art and science of software development. Our dev teams in London, Paris and Bangkok learned a lot from him, and continue to run the "Test-driven Tuesday" coaching sessions that Jan started us on.”

“Jan is, how should I say, nothing short of amazing. He's the most knowledgeable JavaScript guru I've ever had chance to work with. His attention to detail, breadth of technical knowledge and practical use of TDD is invaluable to any development teams. If you need someone who can build up strong foundation for large scale web application, Jan is the one you'll need in your team.”

“I had the pleasure of working with Jan at VISA Europe. He was leading a team in charge of applications and systems we were dependent on. Working with him was a real pleasure. He understood our dependencies and needs, and most of the times he came with better solutions than what we were thinking will cover our needs. Open, smart and helpful, I would recommend Jan for any team that needs a lead with an excellent technological background, a keen eye for details and an out of the box thinking. Thank you, Jan, for everything! I hope we will be working together again in the near future.”

“Jan is an experienced hands-on agile consultant. He has an excellent depth of knowledge, is detail oriented and goes out of his way to meet commitments. A great team player.”

“I had the pleasure of working with Jan on my last project over a period of 18 months and I would strongly recommend him as a Senior Developer or Technical Lead. Jan combines outstanding technical skills spanning from the web client all the way to the back end server, and uses Agile as a core value in the way he approaches everything. As well as having a great personality and sense of humour, he is extremely approachable, a great collaborator, and no task is too complex or basic for him to take on and do well. Jan has a natural instinct for selecting the most appropriate approach at a particular point in a project, given technology, time and resource constraints. He is relentlessly disciplined about clarifying scope and distinguishing what the true priorities are from both a technical and business perspective in order to deliver the highest quality and most timely solution to the client. There are few people I have come to know over the years that have enabled me to make the gargantuan leaps I need into new aspects of development. I'd like to nominate Jan as my guru in the web and javascript sphere, and he's helped expand my knowledge into areas I never knew were possible! I'm sure he will also be the guru for many others that have the privilege of working with him in the future.”

“I have had a pleasure to test Jan's code as a QA, A very passionate developer, always bringing up changes to the team. I really had a very tough and challenging time breaking his code as he always makes sure whatever he delivers to QA is of very high quality.”

“I worked with Jan in my first year as a Tech Lead at Sky. We collaborated on the RSG and Hermes projects, spanning multiple technologies, from PHP to Ruby, from REST to NO-SQL. During that time he proved to be a really skill-full programmer, expert in many techniques, but at the same time passionate to learn new ones. His contributions went beyond programming, encouraging the team to embrace continuous delivery practices and fostering a user-oriented approach. I still recall that time when he volunteered to walk with some of our door-to-door salespeople, just to have a better understanding of the real user requirements. I sincerly recommend Jan and I wish I'll have a chance to work with him again.”

“Jan is a highly capable, intelligent and articulate developer. He works with a refreshing clarity of thought process and has been an absolute pleasure to work with. I look forward to the opportunity to work with him again at some point.”

“Jan has been an asset to our team. He is a talented software engineer who has been instrumental in delivering the business needs on a number of projects for Sky. The projects required using a variety of different tools and languages. Jan regularly shows a real passion for his work and has helped introduce new ideas and tools into the team.”

“Jan's a real pro - his dedication to best practice in web development is to be admired. If you want someone who has the knowledge, experience and drive to show developers how to leverage cutting edge dev practices, Jan is an ideal choice.”

“Jan is an extremely knowledgeable engineer, not only will he find a way to solve a problem, but he will do so in a scalable, manageable and performant way always adhering to best practices. During his time with IPC Digital, out of his own initiative he set up several quality assurance processes that are being slowly rolled out to the rest of the teams. A total pleasure to work with.”

“Jan is a really smart and involved colleague, it was a pleasure to work with him as he always have a very professional attitude. He definitely is one of the key members in a team.”

“Jan's technical skills are exceptional. He a fast, concise and a meticulous developer. He can whip up working solutions to complex problems in the same amount of time that most people spend on trying to understand the problem. His proficiency in code is not his only ability, he balances out just as well explaining technical subjects to non-technical people which is a rarity these days. Jan is a sponge absorbing information fast and continued to impress by the breadth of his ever-expanding knowledge. I hope I will have that pleasure to work with Jan again; he's an asset for any team, big or small ... Jan will make the difference every time.”

“Jan is a strong all-round web engineer, exceptionally mature for his young years. He was an instant help to our team, taking next to no time to be productive. He demonstrated strong core engineering skills (refactoring our application framework and adding unit testing to it), the ability to take on large, poorly-defined problems (for example, 'add search to the APB vault' ... Jan researched the options and implemented it very successfully with Lucene), and made the project a better place for everyone to work (for example, introducing a better editor and debugging environment than the one we had). He was also extremely likeable and easy to work with. I wouldn't hesitate to work with him again.”

“Jan's expertise in web programming and his ability to engineer highly optimised and efficient web architecture is hard to come by. Not only from a technical point of view but also in terms of how clearly he can communicate complex ideas to web designers and front-end artists. He is a patient listener and offers valuable solutions resulting in a sound outcome. It is a pleasure to work with Jan!”

“Jan is one of the most proficient specialists I have ever met. He possesses excellent web programmer skills that combined with an open and creative mind will guarantee top class work. His ability to plan everything ahead and rare sense to foresee unpredicted difficulties causes he always does his job on time, even when something, that could be unexpected, happens. He also has a great way to deal with his co-workers and colleagues, always open to a dialogue, and eager to help, whenever it's needed.”

“I can not only acknowledge, but add a few gold coins to Janek's excellent reputation. He is as smart and talented as pleasant and cheerful. Superb programming skills combined with an inspiring attitude and work speed faster than Data from Star Trek, and coming from a trekkie, that's a big compliment :)”

“Janek is a skilled, experienced and reliable programmer and manager. This guy is not only a very talented professional, but also a great team mate and a team leader. Always smiled, always ready, always there, that’s Janek.”

“Janek is not only very skillful web programmer, but also very friendly and helpful team leader. When it comes to implement some kind of client-server communication, Janek is always there with server-side issues already resolved. It is a real pleasure working with him.”

“Who's Jan? Well... let's see... A highly professional, extremely knowledgeable, excellent web programmer. And on top of that a fun friend to hang around with.”

“He's a top- notch professional, skilled, reliable and very resourceful. He's the kind of preson that encourage you to do your very best, paying attention to every single detail in the project. We made tons of stuff together, and every time it was worth doing. Great work companion.”

“I truly like Janek's approach to his work. Truly balanced and always backed up with good reasoning and argumentation. Never hesitating nor taking too much time over anything he does. Oh, and he's a great source of brief and intelligent jokes. Always a surprise.”

“Open-minded, extreme talented programmer, willing to learn and develop new skills.”

“Outstanding managing and programming skills. Quality and accuracy.”