Backend Development Team Lead (PHP)
Team lead and head of backend development (PHP) with 18+ years of experience building and leading high-load IT products. Scalable architectures, team management, and optimizing business processes through technology.
Core expertise
- Managing teams of up to 10: Agile/Scrum, sprint planning, code review, employee growth.
- Architecture: high-availability systems, microservices, REST API, GraphQL, event-driven (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Technical leadership: the full cycle — from requirements and design to testing, CI/CD, and operations.
- Performance: high-load systems (20,000+ tx/day), caching, balancing, APM.
- Integrations: payment gateways, document flow, CRM/ERP, external APIs.
Key positions
- 2021–2025
Bell Integrator — head of backend development (Express platform, Gazpromneft Supply) - 2018–2021
РОСШТРАФЫ — Senior Software Engineer, Payments - 2015–2017
City Business School — lead developer / Senior PHP Developer - 2011–2015
HotelsPro / Kakdoma — head of development - 2006–2010
GMBT Ltd. / Atelgo — lead developer
Selected leadership results
- 85–90% sprint predictability after introducing planning and task decomposition.
- −40% production incidents through proactive monitoring and code quality.
- 20% of team capacity for tech debt and architecture improvement (a strategy, not one-off actions).
- A culture of constructive code review and psychological safety; a self-sufficient team solving architecture problems.
- Stable platform operation under continuously growing load with optimal resource usage.
Full resume — in PDF
A ready-to-send version for employers. There is also a second track — lead backend developer (IC).