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Last update: 16.10.2023

Senior PHP Developer

Graduation: Bachelor Degree, Politehnica University Timisoara, Automation and Applied Informatics Department
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: English (Limited professional)

Keywords

PHP (Programming Language) Laravel MySQL Symfony Integration Tests Restful Api

Attachments

cv-full-george-vulcan_041023.pdf

Skills

I am a Senior PHP Developer / Contractor / Freelancer with 10+ years of experience.
Skills: PHP, Symfony, Laravel, MySQL, REST API. Unit and Integration Tests

Project history

03/2021 - 06/2023
Senior PHP Developer
Engage People (250-500 employees)

The client a canadian company, provides innovative loyalty platforms across a variety of channels and industries.
Their platforms can support any industry to increase engagement, improve retention and enhance the relationship with its most loyal members.
They faced some issues regarding the integration with a large canadian bank.

Successfully managed to integrate the new client and increase income by 30% by participating into the development of new features and leading a fast-paced team of 4 developers and 2 QAs.

Skills: PHP 7.X, PHP 8, Laravel 7 and 8, MySQL, REST API, Unit/Integration Testing, Git, Agile Methodology, Management, Leadership, Communication.

09/2021 - 02/2022
Senior PHP Developer
XENTRAL (50-250 employees)

The client, a German company offering clients an ERP system to ease their work, was having a hard time acquiring both new clients and new employees due to its legacy and hard to maintain application.

Increased retention of new clients by ???? 25% and increased new employees numbers by ???? 15% by redesigning and
implementing a brand new API using modern technology and highly-intuitive designs pattern.

Skills: PHP 7.X, Laravel, OpenAPI Specification (OAS), MySQL, Behat.

03/2020 - 03/2021
Senior PHP Developer
THE ACCESS GROUP (250-500 employees)

The client was struggling with an absence and holiday management platform, written in legacy code and hard to maintain.
Security and performance needed to be improved fast.

• Reduced the overall software development time and increased productivity by 40% by introducing a layered architecture in
order to decouple the business model from the infrastructure code.

• Reduced errors in the development phase by 60% by introducing unit and integration tests.
Skills: PHP 7.X, Symfony 2, JQuery, JavaScript, MySQL, Doctrine ORM, REST API, OpenID Connect, Domain Driven Design,
Layered Architecture, Unit/Integration Testing, Git, CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Jira, Agile Methodology.

04/2016 - 03/2020
Senior PHP Developer / Team Leader
LINGO24 (50-250 employees)

The client had an in-house Computer Aided Translation tool that helps the user to make fast and accurate translations.
They faced some issues regarding the integration with another internal system used by project managers, and this led to repetitive actions made on both systems.
Also performance was suffering due to old technologies.

• Reduced the time spent by project managers from an average of 30 min/project to under 10 min by leading a fast-paced team of 2 developers and 2 QA’s into redesigning the existing
domain model. This allowed the project managers to increase the number of projects handled by 3-4X.

• Improved app performance by 50% by designing and safely executing a migration plan towards a newer tech stack. User satisfaction grew as a result.

Skills: PHP 7.X, QCubed, Symfony 3, JQuery, PostGreSQL, MongoDB, Doctrine ORM, Doctrine ODM, REST API, Swagger, RabbitMQ, Unit/Integration Testing, Git, CI/CD, Jenkins, Jira, Agile Methodology.

04/2010 - 04/2016
Senior PHP Developer / Team Leader
SEOPA (10-50 employees)

The client, one of the UK’s leading insurance comparison providers, wanted to scale the number of products, insurance partners and also to offer white label co-brand solutions.

Increased income by 30% and added almost 100 products on one of the insurance systems by leading a team of 6 developers, managing code reviews, and establishing an efficient communication with stakeholders.

Skills: PHP 5.6, MySQL, Apache, HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, SVN, Management, Leadership, Communication.

06/2006 - 04/2010
Junior Software Engineer
ALCATEL

The client, a global telecommunications equipment company, was facing continuous growth of voice and data traffic and required an automated system for installing and updating their
software equipment.
Reduced the time spent during installation from an average of 2h to under 30 min by making the en re process automated and easy to use.
Skills: Perl, Shell scripting.

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