Position: Senior backend (Symfony) PHP Developer
Category: PHP
English level: intermediate
Years of experience: 11

As a member of a great and experienced team, in agile environments (Scrum, Kanban), I build the new scalable and high loaded in-house ERP system based on microservice architecture, support existing projects, and use modern deployments tools and good code practices to deliver high-quality software to run the daily business. 

Collaborating within the product and financial departments to improve its performance, identify issues, document, prioritize, and resolve them.

I’ve been the initiator of the payment task force to investigate existing hidden issues and handle them. This brought to the company over xM Eur extra cash.

I’ve been a part of the team that builds a new payment system for the entire group. It handles payments for ~xxK orders and about ~xM Eur daily.

I've been an initiator to establish a security issues group to investigate existing security vulnerabilities. By this company's data have a chance to be reorganized in a more safe way, the security breaches will be fixed, future development will be more sustainable, and the data will be handled in a more careful and responsible way.

- Built scalable, high-loaded, and single-responsible services which have to be integrated with existing high-loaded infrastructure.

- Many existing processes from a big monolith application were decoupled into the small, sustainable, and maintainable microservices inside of Kubernetes cluster.

- Researched and documented main and side business processes related to invoicing. Found many issues which is opened the way for significant improvements for the many subsystems which impact customer’s experience and the legal side of the business as well.

- In cooperation with DevOps the CI/CD processes were created from the scratch.

- The common code standards were developed and now it using by the entire IT department and integrated into the CI/CD pipelines.

- In cooperation with different departments we investigate existing vulnerabilities and have created the roadmap in order to improve security and be compatible with GDPR.
Hi there!

I'm a Senior Backend PHP developer with 20+ years of experience.

Since 2018 a member of the ERP department for the world's leading retailer for bicycles, the Internetstores Group, which belongs to SIGNA Sports United. 

Daily routine:

 Delivery of high-quality maintainable code followed by common quality measures and architectural principles / Code reviews / Mentoring
 Supporting PO/PM in the technical and architectural decomposition of user requirements and features
 Ensuring the service level, availability, and functionality of the code toward the business stakeholders
 Supporting PO and PM in troubleshooting with end-users of our stack

Tech stack:

 PHP, Symfony, MySql, Redis, Mongo, RabbitMQ, Git, ELK, Grafana
 CI/CD pipelines and processes behind
 OO principles, Unit/Functional testing, DRY, SOLID, and KISS
 DDD and TDD approach to build the applications
 RESTful APIs
 Docker, Kubernetes, Mulesoft
 Security compliance / GDPR compatibility
 Jira, Confluence, Scrum

SIGNA Sports United is a NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) listed specialist online sports retail company based in Berlin, Germany. This is a world leader which serve 7+ Million customers around the world and has 500M+ annual online visitors.

More than 100 online shops in over 20 countries, such as Fahrrad.de, Bikester, Probikeshop, Campz, Addnature, and many others cover more than 1,300 brands and 130,000 products.
Do you looking for a responsible and reliable php developer, who has experience in e-commerce? That's me. I'm also willing to grow in any else industry. Does your company make an exciting projects? I would like to work with you in the next years.

I'm NOT interested in Wordpress/Joomla/Bitrix/Opencart based development. I prefer a one-product company.

Ideally, small or medium developer team with a friendly atmosphere and good working process, flexible working hours, and remote work.