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AFFILOMANIA
Team Lead and Senior Backend Developer
Israel-based B2B SaaS company providing affiliate marketing technology solutions.
Technical contributions and impact:
● Led backend development and scaling of the PHP/Symfony platform, supporting a traffic growth of over 200% within one year while ensuring system uptime.
● Architected and implemented high-performance backend systems using PHP/Symfony, MySQL, microservices, and Docker, improving API response times by 20%.
● Integrated 20+ third-party APIs, enhancing platform functionality, streamlining data synchronization, ensuring interoperability, and adding new traffic.
● Conducted ~30 code reviews per sprint, maintaining code quality, identifying and resolving bugs, mentoring junior developers, and enforcing coding standards.
● Optimized backend systems, reducing server load by identifying bottlenecks, implementing caching mechanisms, and fine-tuning database queries.
Tools and technologies: PHP, Symfony, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Doctrine, MongoDB, Microservices Architecture, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS services.
Team size: 3 Devs, DevOps, Solution Architect, QA.
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025
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Avekapeti
Senior Symfony Developer
Avekapeti delivers homemade meals prepared with fresh and seasonal products by gourmet chefs.
Joined a venture-backed French food-tech startup to design, scale, and maintain internal platforms while automating core business processes.
Technical contributions and impact:
● Engineered back-office systems utilizing Symfony framework, introducing high-impact features for operations, logistics, and business teams, accelerating internal workflows by 20% and enhancing overall efficiency.
● Designed a novel food delivery mechanism, covering domain modeling and integration with existing order and fulfillment systems.
● Led frontend evolution of internal and user-facing interfaces (Twig / JS), improving UX consistency and maintainability while coordinating backend changes.
● Transformed legacy code by implementing Symfony coding standards and reducing technical debt across 3 major modules, improving application performance.
Tools and technologies: PHP, Symfony, MySQL, Doctrine, HTML, CSS, vanilla JS, Twig, Docker.
Team size: 2 Devs, CTO, Manual QA.
Oct 2021 – Jul 2024
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Le Guide Noir
Senior Software Engineer
Le Guide Noir Spain-based B2B/B2C SaaS platform providing influencer marketing technology.
Collaborated with an international engineering team to build and scale innovative products across fashion, influencer ecosystems, and data analytics.
Technical contributions and impact:
● Core contributor to the main monolithic user portal, working across backend and frontend layers to support creators, brands, and internal teams.
● Pioneered and maintained 2 independent projects/services, including an influencer library and analytics platform, providing performance metrics, insights, and reports; and an automated system for social media portfolio generation, creating shortened, custom domain names, and enhancing public sharing, which led to a 30% increase in user engagement.
● Constructed a high-performance JavaScript plugin, deployed across 50+ brand websites, to display engagement galleries, working end-to-end on plugin architecture and frontend behavior, and REST API built from scratch to serve data.
● Implemented complex analytics, business logic, and calculations, producing actionable metrics, automated reports, and insights for business and marketing teams.
Tools and technologies: PHP, Symfony, MySQL, Doctrine, HTML, CSS, vanilla JS, Twig, Docker.
Team size: 7 Devs, DevOps, Project Manager, 2 Designers, 2 QA.
Oct 2016 — Oct 2021
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Digital Mafia
Middle / Senior Developer
Worked on the design, development, and delivery of custom web applications for clients, taking ownership across the full software development lifecycle.
Technical contributions and impact:
● Built and customized web applications and internal tools using contemporary frontend and backend frameworks, enhancing functionality and efficiency.
● Collaborated directly with designers and project managers to translate requirements into stable, maintainable technical solutions.
● Refactored and co-ordinated existing codebase, delivering enhancements, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
Tools and technologies: PHP, Symfony, MySQL, Doctrine, HTML, CSS, JS/jQuery, Twig.
Team size: 6 Devs, Project Manager, SysAdmin, Designer.
Jul 2014 — Sep 2016
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OkInternet
Junior / Middle Developer
OkInternet was a fast-growing company that took over a large part of internet industry in Ukraine.
Started as a junior web developer and rapidly progressed to a mid-level position while contributing to a fast-growing digital agency with a robust engineering culture.
Technical contributions and impact:
● Engineered and supported web applications and client websites, working across full-stack layers to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability.
● Spearheaded code improvements, fixed production issues, and participated in refactoring and optimization of existing codebases.
Tools and technologies: PHP, Symfony, Facebook Apps, MySQL, Doctrine, HTML, CSS, JS/jQuery, Twig.
Team size: ~20 Devs, 2 Project Managers, SysAdmin, Designers.
Oct 2011 — Jun 2014
- Education
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Master's diploma in Software Engineering (Systems focused) with honours
Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University
In 2015 completed the full course of Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University obtained master's degree in the field of study "System Software" and obtained qualification of Master of Software Engineering (Systems focused).
Sep 2014 – Jul 2015
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Bachelor's diploma in Software Engineering with honours
Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University
In 2014 completed the full course of Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University having specialized in "Software Engineering" and obtained qualification of Bachelor of Software Engineering.
Sep 2010 – Jun 2014
