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Ing. Roman Ožana

Building things for the web since 2009

Full-stack developer from Prague with over 17 years of building web applications and services. Co-founder and main developer of Testomato and long-time lead developer of Zdroják.cz, working mostly in PHP and TypeScript. I like small, efficient teams and products that stay simple.

Work Experience

2012 – Present14 years 7 months

Co-founder & Main Developer – Testomato s.r.o.

Co-founded and developed Testomato, a SaaS platform for automated website monitoring and testing. As the main developer, I lead full-stack development in PHP 8.5, TypeScript and Vue – from architecture and API design to frontend implementation – and work with AI tools like Claude Code and Codex every day. Responsible for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring platform reliability at scale.

2011 – Present15 years 5 months

Full Stack Developer – Devel.cz Lab s.r.o.

Full-stack developer for zdrojak.cz, a leading Czech developer platform. Designed and built a custom WordPress theme and plugin suite from scratch, owning everything from database to UI. Delivering new features and maintaining platform stability in close collaboration with the editorial team.

2009 – Present17 years 8 months

Freelance Web Developer

Freelance full-stack web developer working with PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Astro, Vue, React, Tailwind CSS, Docker, and a wide range of technologies across the web development stack.

2009 – 2011

Earlier roles

  • Application Engineer – Intergraph s.r.o. (2010–2011): developed and tested C# / .NET applications for a large enterprise system that manages and shares metadata.
  • PHP Developer – Skvely.CZ s.r.o. (2009–2010): built custom web applications for clients and modules for the Magento e-commerce platform.

Open Source & Writing

Open source

Author and maintainer of open-source packages for JavaScript, PHP and Rust, including wticons, ftpsync, potrans, icalparser and mock-to-openapi. All of them on Projects.

Writing

I write for Zdroják.cz, a Czech developer magazine, about web development, DevOps and security, with 19 articles so far. The latest: Grafana + Loki + Vector: logování bez zbytečné vědy.

Tech I Love Working With

The stack I enjoy most and want to keep building with. AI-assisted development comes first.

Education

SPŠE Rožnov pod Radhoštěm

1997 – 2001: Electronic computer systems

Spoken Languages

CzechNative
EnglishCommunicative
GermanBeginner
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