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Lead Backend Developer (PHP)

Technical leader and senior backend developer with 18+ years of experience designing and building high-load, fault-tolerant systems in PHP. Expert in scalable architectures for e-commerce, SaaS, and fintech platforms: performance optimization, security, DDD, TDD, CI/CD.

Key skills

PHP 7/8 Symfony 6/7 Laravel Yii MySQL PostgreSQL ClickHouse Redis Memcached RabbitMQ Apache Kafka Docker Kubernetes CI/CD REST API GraphQL WebSockets DDD / TDD / SOLID PHPUnit APM ELK

Key positions

  • 2021–2025
    Bell Integrator — Tech Lead / lead backend developer (Express platform, Gazpromneft Supply)
  • 2018–2021
    РОСШТРАФЫ — Senior Software Engineer, Payments
  • 2015–2017
    City Business School — lead PHP developer
  • 2011–2015
    HotelsPro / Kakdoma — head of development / lead developer
  • 2006–2010
    GMBT Ltd. / Atelgo — lead developer

Selected results

  • Payment core: 20,000+ successful transactions a day, 99.99% uptime, +~10% conversion of successful payments.
  • HA architecture of a logistics platform: stable at +100% peak load without degradation of critical operations.
  • Web + Mobile API unification: −60% code duplication, a new endpoint 2× faster.
  • ClickHouse: daily financial reports in 3–5 minutes instead of several hours.

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Full resume — in PDF

A ready-to-send version for employers. There is also a second track — backend team lead.