Giorgi

Giorgi Lazashvili
Tbilisi, Georgia (GMT+4)
Remote (worldwide) | B2B/Contract | Open to EU relocation (Blue Card)
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Senior PHP Engineer (Laravel, Symfony) with 10+ years of full-time development and a long record of independent B2B work,
including one client continuously since 2012. Delivers EU government systems (national eID e-signatures), healthcare
integrations, SAP Business One and multi-platform e-commerce integrations. Comfortable owning a product alone, from
architecture and API design through deployment and maintenance, or leading a team as a Lead Developer.

SKILLS
Primary:
Laravel
Symfony
PHP
REST & GraphQL APIs
System Architecture
MySQL/MariaDB

Additional:
Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, MongoDB
Frameworks & platforms: Nest.js, Magento 2, Doctrine ORM
E-commerce integrations: Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix, SAP Business One
Frontend: React, Vue, Inertia.js, CSS + SCSS
DevOps & infra: Docker, Nginx, Apache, Ubuntu, AWS (S3), CI/CD
Tooling & QA: Git, PHPUnit, PHPStan
AI-assisted dev: Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude

WORK EXPERIENCE
Efumo SSC (Aug 2024 - Present)
EU-based product company (Latvia) - remote
Position: Symfony Developer
Responsibilities:
● Build and maintain backend and frontend for Symfony platforms across government, healthcare and media products.
● Configure and maintain Ubuntu servers with Docker.
Achievements:
● Delivered platforms for Latvian national institutions, including legally valid e-signature integration via the national eID
(eParaksts).
● Built healthcare software with direct medical-device integration.

Prestele Group GmbH (May 2022 - Oct 2025)
EU-based product company (Germany) - remote
Position: Lead Developer
Continued providing transition support after moving to Efumo in August 2024, until October 2025.
Responsibilities:
● Led backend and frontend development in Laravel and React, and owned system architecture across products.
● Configured and maintained Ubuntu servers. Built and published Composer packages.
Achievements:
● Led development of multiple production products - SAP Business One integrations, e-commerce, a dating platform and
media sites.
● Re-architected a monolith into a decoupled Laravel API with an independent frontend.
● Established project-wide coding standards and improved engineering quality across the team.
● Integrated AI tooling (ChatGPT, Cursor) into team workflows, cutting debugging time and improving code quality.

Webiz LLC (Feb 2020 - Jun 2022)
Israeli software development company (Georgia)
Position: Developer
Responsibilities:
● Built Magento 2 and Wix plugins, and product/order sync across Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento 2.
● Built and maintained backends in Nest.js and Laravel.
Achievements:
● Developed and published an integration plugin adapted for both Wix and Shopify.
● Delivered multi-platform e-commerce integrations, a social-network backend, and a reusable integration package.

Scandiweb (Jun 2019 - Feb 2020)
Position: Magento Developer
Responsibilities:
● Developed Magento 2 Enterprise storefronts for international retail brands.
Achievements:
● Delivered Magento 2 stores for recognizable brands - Champion, Hanes and Moose Knuckles.

Negesco LTD (S-Cad Group Georgia LTD) (Feb 2016 - Jun 2019)
US-based product company (Georgia)
Position: Web Developer → Lead Developer → Software Development Manager
Responsibilities:
● Designed and developed a custom business management system while leading the development team.
Achievements:
● Delivered a Business Management System that increased company profit by 20%+.
● Promoted from Web Developer to Lead to Software Development Manager over three years.

EVEX Medical Corporation (formerly "New Life" Hospital) (May 2012 - Feb 2016)
Medical company (Georgia)
Position: IT Manager / IT Specialist
Responsibilities:
● Sole IT lead for a medical clinic through its acquisition by EVEX - managed the full IT infrastructure, multi-site rollouts, IT
inventory and procurement, and system deployments.
Achievements:
● Designed and maintained a highly reliable network (99.99% uptime).

FREELANCE EXPERIENCE
Remote | Long-term B2B engagements alongside primary roles

Na5ku (Jun 2012 - Present)
Product company (Ukraine)
Position: Core Developer (part-time)
Responsibilities:
● Build and maintain backends in Laravel and native PHP.
● Configure and maintain Ubuntu servers.
Achievements:
● Architected and owned the core platform for 14 years, scaled it to 5M+ records and hardened production against DDoS
attacks.
● Built CRM, business-management and referral platforms with automated payout processing, standardized APIs into reusable
Composer packages.
● Moved file and media storage to AWS S3, offloading application servers.

Dudka Agency (Validev) (Apr 2022 - Dec 2023)
Web development studio (Ukraine)
Position: Web Developer (part-time)
Responsibilities:
● Built and maintained Laravel/Nova backends across multiple products.
Achievements:
● Built backends across government, education, media and gaming products, including a government anti-trafficking portal.

EDUCATION
MSc in Software Engineering
Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia (2015 - 2017)
BSc in Software Engineering
Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia (2011 - 2015)
Certificate - Professional PHP development
GeoLab, Tbilisi, Georgia (2016 - 2017)

LANGUAGES
English: B2
Georgian: Native
Russian: Native

RECOMMENDATION LETTERS
Prestele Group GmbH
Scandiweb
Webiz LLC
Dudka Agency & Validev CEO
Na5ku

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