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