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OLEKSANDR LILIK
PHP / Laravel / Full-Stack Software Engineer
Kharkiv, Ukraine | [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація») | [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація») | LinkedIn: available on request

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Full-Stack Software Engineer with 6+ years of professional PHP and web development experience, including Laravel/Vue.js SaaS
platforms, marketplace backends, and independent WordPress products. Skilled in REST and GraphQL APIs, authentication,
multi-tenancy, caching, asynchronous processing, and modular architecture. Experienced across product teams, remote
contracts, and end-to-end product engineering.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Backend: PHP 8+, Laravel, GraphQL (Lighthouse), REST APIs, WordPress plugin development, queues and background jobs
Architecture: Multi-tenancy, RBAC, JWT authentication, SOLID, MVC, modular services, WordPress hooks
Data & caching: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
Frontend: Vue.js 2/3, Pinia, Quasar, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Development tools: Docker, Git, GitHub, WP-CLI
Product engineering: Security-minded validation, integrations, internationalization, technical documentation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Contract Full-Stack / Backend Engineer | CoolOrca
Marketplace platform | Remote contract | Jun 2026 – Oct 2026
• Contributed to a Laravel-based marketplace architecture spanning GraphQL APIs, customer authentication, cart and order
workflows, and service integrations.
• Refactored JWT authentication in Lighthouse GraphQL using optional authentication middleware, field-level authorization
directives, and centralized customer identity resolution.
• Improved request-context propagation across cart and order services; verified changes against the existing GraphQL test
suite to avoid introducing regressions.
• Worked with Laravel, PHP, GraphQL (Lighthouse), JWT, Redis, PostgreSQL/MySQL, and distributed-service infrastructure.

Product Engineer | CorpSoft
Prague, Czech Republic | Remote | Jan 2024 – Oct 2026
• Developed a multi-tenant LMS SaaS platform using Laravel and Vue.js, and contributed to a high-load healthcare platform
using Laravel and Blade.
• Implemented tenant-aware access control (RBAC), queue workers, background jobs, and Redis caching.
• Reduced API response time by 11% and supported a production system serving 1K+ active users.
• Refactored legacy modules into a more modular, service-based structure.

Founder & Software Engineer | OliForge
Independent product development | Remote | 2026 – Present
• Architecting and developing a portfolio of reusable WordPress plugins with modular PHP code, custom database structures,
form integrations, and administrative interfaces.
• Built OliForge Subscribers workflows for list membership, double opt-in, consent tracking, confirmation, and Contact Form 7
integration.
• Developed CF7 Submission Guard capabilities for configurable validation, honeypot checks, rate limiting, and abuse
prevention; built a searchable country selector for Contact Form 7.

Oleksandr Lilik • Software Engineering CV

• Designed Free/Pro product boundaries, a consistent UI design system, and the OliForge website and documentation
experience.
• Own product lifecycle from architecture and implementation through testing, localization, documentation, and release
preparation.

Full-Stack Engineer | SafeDigit
Vancouver, Canada | Remote contract | Apr 2023 – Dec 2023
• Built Vue.js and Quasar applications and custom Shopify / WordPress plugins.
• Developed REST APIs and webhooks for integrations; maintained Pinia state management and integration pipelines.

Middle PHP / WordPress Developer | Creative Minds
Tel Aviv, Israel | May 2021 – Mar 2023
• Developed and maintained commercial WordPress plugins; delivered features, customizations, and legacy-code
improvements.
• Used PHP, jQuery, Vue.js, and MySQL to extend plugin functionality.

WordPress Developer | MakeIT
Lviv, Ukraine | Apr 2020 – May 2021
• Implemented WordPress features and custom plugins; maintained websites, debugged issues, and refactored existing code.

SELECTED INDEPENDENT PRODUCTS
OliForge Subscribers — subscription lifecycle, relational data modeling, consent events, double opt-in and confirmation API.
OliForge CF7 Submission Guard — per-form security controls, validation rules, anti-abuse mechanisms.
OliForge Country Select — searchable country selector for Contact Form 7 with localization and configurable country lists.

EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT
Doctoral Studies — Military Academy of ADF, Kharkiv | Research focus: data processing for early-warning missile systems
Continuing education — Udemy, Coursera and independent study in PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and Git

LANGUAGES
Ukrainian | English | Polish

Oleksandr Lilik • Software Engineering CV