PHP developer

Seasoned full-stack PHP engineer with ten years of production experience building secure, scalable SaaS platforms in finance and marketing sectors. Comfortable refactoring legacy monoliths to modern microservice architectures using PHP 8.3, Symfony 6, Doctrine ORM, and PostgreSQL. Frequently introduces automated quality gates with PHPUnit, PHPCS, Psalm, and GitHub Actions to push coverage past ninety percent. Containerization evangelist who simplifies onboarding with Docker Compose and Kubernetes Helm charts. Loves domain-driven design, event sourcing, and pragmatic clean code. Has mentored fifteen junior developers, coordinated three distributed teams, and spoken at two PHP Russia meetups. Front-end know-how includes Vue, TypeScript, and Tailwind, enabling truly independent feature delivery. Recently migrated payments gateway processing forty million monthly requests without downtime, reducing latency thirty-five percent and server costs twenty percent. Holds AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification and manages CI/CD via Terraform, CodePipeline, and EKS. Open to relocating or working remote within CET ±3 hours. Passion projects: open-source contributor to Rector, creator of composer plugin downloaded twenty-five thousand times. Looking for product-driven culture that values ownership, pair programming, and continuous improvement. Available from September with two weeks’ notice, salary expectations negotiable. References and code samples on request. Fluent in English, intermediate German, passionate cyclist and chess club captain.

Driven backend PHP developer with eight years’ expertise crafting resilient e-commerce ecosystems serving fashion and grocery brands. Core stack embraces PHP 8, Laravel 10, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, and RabbitMQ, backed by SOLID principles and hexagonal architecture. Spearheaded migration from on-premise Blade templates to headless API consumed by React and Flutter apps, achieving forty-three percent faster page loads and doubling mobile conversion. Adept at dissecting business requirements, writing RFCs, and translating them into domain models with strict type safety and behavioural tests using Behat and PHPUnit. Docker, GitLab CI, and SonarQube guard delivery pipelines he designed, enforcing gatekeeping rules that slashed post-release defects by sixty percent. Enjoys pair programming, code reviews, and mob sessions, believing collective ownership breeds better craftsmanship. Mentored QA team to adopt Cypress integration suites, improving confidence in continuous deployment strategy. Certified Scrum Master who facilitates sprint rituals, measures velocity, and advocates empirical process control. Recently implemented dynamic pricing engine leveraging Laravel Octane, swoole, and AWS ElastiCache, saving client $500k annually. Comfortable with GDPR compliance, OWASP standards, and PCI DSS audits. Seeks product company valuing autonomy, remote-first culture, and clear engineering career paths. Notice period one month; available for interview any timezone. Marathon runner and amateur barbecue pitmaster.

Pragmatic mid-level PHP developer specializing in building API-centric booking and logistics systems. Five years hands-on with PHP 8, Slim Framework, Lumen, and Go for performance-critical microservices. Designs REST and GraphQL endpoints following JSON:API spec, documented with Swagger and Stoplight. Handles complex SQL queries, sharding, and replication on MariaDB and ClickHouse, plus caching layers with Memcached and Varnish. Implemented circuit breakers and retry policies with Resilience library, boosting SLA from 97.5 to 99.9 percent. Passionate about observability: sets up OpenTelemetry traces, Grafana dashboards, and Prometheus alerts triggering PagerDuty rotations. Wrote custom Monolog processors to correlate user sessions across services, slashing debugging time. Champions test pyramid: mutation tests via Infection, contract tests with Pact, smoke tests in GitHub Actions. Helped migrate infra from bare-metal to Azure AKS using Pulumi infrastructure-as-code, saving twenty hours weekly on manual deployments. Enjoys discussing domain events, CQRS, and eventual consistency over coffee. Active participant in local PHP user group; presented talk on minimizing cold-start penalties in FaaS. Seeking team where curiosity, honest feedback, and psychological safety are core values. Ready within three weeks, willing to travel for quarterly on-sites. Outside work plays drums in indie band and tinkers with 3D printing. Enjoys volunteer coding workshops for teenagers.

Senior PHP architect with twelve years orchestrating digital media platforms peaking at two billion monthly impressions. Expert in upgrading sprawling Zend and CodeIgniter codebases to modern PSR-12 compliant services powered by PHP 8.2, Symfony 6, and API Platform. Introduced event-driven architecture with Apache Kafka, enabling near-real-time analytics pipelines in Spark, cutting reporting latency from hours to seconds. Strong proponent of trunk-based development: sets up feature flags with LaunchDarkly, blue-green releases in ArgoCD, and chaos experiments with Litmus to validate resilience. Security champion: leads threat modeling sessions, conducts SAST/DAST scans, and implemented OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and Keycloak single sign-on across twenty client brands. Comfortable budgeting and roadmap planning; managed €4 m engineering budget and thirty cross-functional staff in matrix organization. Holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Psychology, blending technical depth with empathetic leadership. Authored internal “Effective PHP” guideline adopted company-wide, reducing review cycles twenty percent. Certified Kubernetes Administrator and Google Professional Cloud Architect, having containerized monolith into hundred microservices running on GKE with Anthos adjacency for hybrid burst. Searching for mission-driven scale-up needing technical vision, mentorship, and hands-on coding. Prefers remote-first Europe, open to periodic travel. Cyclist, improv theatre enthusiast, and espresso nerd. Hosts podcast on software ethics and leadership challenges.

Polyglot software engineer focusing on PHP performance optimization for ad-tech and real-time bidding. Seven years crafting low-latency APIs with PHP-FPM, RoadRunner, and C extensions. Profiling guru who shaves microseconds using Blackfire, XHProf, and valgrind, delivering thirty percent throughput gains. Leads data modeling workshops to balance relational PostgreSQL with Cassandra and Redis streams, ensuring millisecond SLAs under 10 k rps. Built auto-scaling algorithm leveraging Kubernetes HPA and custom metrics, slashing AWS bills by forty-two percent. Follows TDD religiously: PHPUnit, PHPSpec, and approval tests integrated into Bitbucket pipelines. Writes Infrastructure as Code in Terraform, Ansible, and Packer with canary deploy strategy. Oversaw GDPR anonymization project across petabyte data lake in S3, collaborating with legal, data science, and DevSecOps. Enjoys writing RFCs for PHP internals; contributed hash algorithm improvements accepted in 8.1. Speaker at Dutch PHP Conference 2024 about async processing with amphp. Seeking senior individual contributor role with pathway to staff engineer, preferably remote Americas timezone. Can relocate to Canada. Two-week notice. Outside keyboard builds mechanical keyboards, plays ultimate frisbee, and volunteers at animal shelter. Avid reader of distributed systems papers, organizes weekend hackathons, practises mindfulness meditation daily, and maintains YouTube channel teaching PHP tricks to beginners worldwide. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Emerging PHP developer with three years full-time experience in prop-tech startup, rapidly progressing from intern to lead of feature squad. Delivers clean, maintainable Laravel and Symfony code adhering to PSR standards and SOLID principles. Designed multitenant architecture enabling white-label portals, onboarding nine enterprise clients without additional infrastructure. Introduced GitHub Actions CI, automated PHPUnit and PHPStan checks, shrinking code review time thirty percent. Fascinated by DevOps: built Docker Compose-based local environment, Terraform scripts for DigitalOcean Kubernetes, and Argo Rollouts for progressive delivery. Implemented real-time chat using WebSockets, Redis Pub/Sub, and Vue, improving customer engagement by twenty-seven percent. Writes clear ADRs, follows RFC culture, and drives sprint retros fostering continuous improvement. Open-source enthusiast: maintains Laravel package adding OpenTelemetry instrumentation, starred by 350 developers. Studied computer engineering; continues learning through Coursera courses on algorithms, domain design, and leadership. Seeking collaborative team offering mentorship from staff engineers, flexible hours, and budget for conferences. Available immediately within GMT-5 to GMT-1. Hobbies include rock climbing, photography, and baking sourdough bread; organizes monthly tech-for-good meetups donating proceeds to local shelters. Values psychological safety, honest feedback cycles, pairing sessions, and inclusive documentation practices. Fluent English speaker, conversational French, enjoys reading sci-fi and playing board games during rainy weekends.