Ilya

Strong Junior PHP Developer (Laravel)

Employment type:: full-time, part-time
Age:: 36 years
City of residence:: Kyiv
Ready to work:: Kyiv, Remote

Contact information

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Work experience

Juniour PHP developer

from 10.2021 to now (3 years 10 months)
Maximum-Net, Remote (IT)

Junior PHP Developer
Maximum-Net, Remote (Oct 2021 — Present)
• Developed and maintained several Telegram bots to interact with over 1000 customers a month and provide automation tools.
• Set up and configured Linux-based web servers (Nginx).
• Migrated databases from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
• Wrote unit and integration tests using PHPUnit.
• Built a responsive customer portal using Laravel 11, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
• Helped identify and localize bugs in the company’s billing system.

Support manager

from 04.2015 to now (10 years 4 months)
Maximum-Net, Boiarka (IT)

Technical Support Specialist
Maximum-Net, Boiarka (Apr 2015 — Present)
• Provided customer support and network troubleshooting.
• Configured and maintained client-side and server-side equipment.

Education

Vocational Technical College #18, Kyiv

Kyiv
Specialized secondary, from 2004 to 2007 (3 years)

Additional education and certificates

Hexlet – PHP Developer Program

Duration: 10 months (2021)

Knowledge and skills

PHP
Git
SQL
Linux OS user
PostgreSQL
Slim
CI\CD
HTML
CSS
MySQL
Docker
Knowledge of MVC principles
Composer
Laravel
Bootstrap
Vim

Language proficiencies

English — average
Ukrainian — fluent

Additional information

Pet Projects

PHP Console Games
https://github.com/Tvardick/php-project-lvl1
• CLI-based mini games with well-structured code
• Practiced OOP, PSR-12, GitHub Actions, and higher-order functions
Gendiff
https://github.com/Tvardick/php-project-lvl2
• A tool to compare two data structures
• Covered recursion, AST trees, and data format handling (JSON, YAML)
Slim Framework Example
https://github.com/Tvardick/hexlet-slim-example
• Learned HTTP request lifecycle, cookies/sessions, and flash messaging
• Introduced routing, middleware, and views

Motivation

Currently seeking a team with a strong engineering culture, where I can continue growing as a backend developer. Open to working with mentors, doing code reviews, and contributing to high-quality codebases.