Full-stack PHP Developer

4 years building web platforms:
backend, admin panels, payments, integrations.

PHP 8 / Symfony / JavaScript / SQL / Docker

About

I am a full-stack PHP developer with 4 years of experience. I build and maintain web platforms end to end: the backend, the admin panel, payments, third-party integrations and the user interface. I work from the task description to the release.

09/2023 – now · Full-stack PHP developer · online gaming platform (X-Play)

Backend and integrations

  • Admin panel

    Built the first version of the operator admin panel: players, balances, payments, bonuses and settings (Symfony, Doctrine, Twig).

  • Core logic

    Accounts and balances, deposits and withdrawals, bonuses and background jobs.

  • Payments

    P2P deposits and withdrawals with limits and routing of payment details.

  • Integrations

    Payment, SMS, e-mail and game providers, Telegram bots, affiliate tracking.

  • Security

    Two-step login, sign-in through Telegram, roles and permissions for staff.

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Interfaces and operations

  • Web interfaces

    Responsive player cabinet and cashier built from Figma designs, with several languages including right-to-left (Hebrew, Arabic).

  • Releases

    Deploys from staging to production for three repositories, database migrations with backups, rollbacks when needed.

  • Support

    Investigating production incidents, fixing bugs, writing technical documentation.

  • Tooling

    AI-assisted development (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) with code review, automated tests and staged releases.

08/2022 – 08/2023 · Freelance web developer

Websites for businesses

Corporate sites, an online shop, a B2B catalog and a landing page for small and mid-size businesses in Germany, Austria, Georgia and Ukraine. WordPress, WooCommerce, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP.

Tools

Stack

  • Languages

    PHP 8, JavaScript (ES6+), SQL, HTML5, CSS3, Twig, Bash

  • Frameworks

    Symfony 6.4, Doctrine ORM, WordPress and WooCommerce, PHPUnit, Composer

  • Databases

    MariaDB, MySQL: migrations, query tuning, backups

  • DevOps

    Docker, Docker Compose, Linux, Git and GitHub, SSH, cron

  • Integrations

    REST APIs, webhooks, Telegram Bot API and Mini Apps, SMS and e-mail providers

How I work

Contact

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