Макар

Makar Shmihel
Junior PHP (Laravel) Developer

Kyiv, Ukraine | [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація») | [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація»)

GitHub: https://github.com/Meyz028 | Telegram: @Meyz665

Summary

3rd-year Computer Engineering student at KPI with hands-on experience building a full backend
system from scratch — REST API with authentication, RBAC, DTOs, and automated tests.
Comfortable working across the full Laravel stack: database design, API documentation,
containerization with Docker.

Looking for a Junior PHP Developer role to bring this practical foundation into a commercial
product.

Experience

PHP Developer — SEOK | 2024 – 2025

 Developed and maintained features for a commercial product using PHP 8, Laravel, and MySQL.
 Built and consumed REST API endpoints, documenting them with OpenAPI for cross-team use.
 Participated in code review and Git-based collaboration workflows in a production codebase.

Technical Skills

 Languages & Frameworks: PHP 8.x, Laravel, REST API, Eloquent ORM, Python, Django,
HTML/CSS.
 Databases: MySQL (schema design, relationships, indexing, complex queries).
 Testing & Quality: PHPUnit, Pest, Clean Code, SOLID.
 Tools & DevOps: Git (Gitflow, PRs), Docker, Docker Compose, Postman, Swagger, Linux
(Ubuntu).
 Basic Knowledge: Yii, Symfony, Java, Spring, JavaScript, Vue.js, React.js.

Portfolio (PHP Laravel 1 year of experience)

 Tech Stack: PHP 8, Laravel, MySQL, REST API, OpenAPI.
 Link: https://github.com/Meyz028/NovaBuild
 Designed and normalized a relational MySQL database schema, modeling one-to-many and many-
to-many relationships and wrapping critical operations in database transactions to guarantee data
integrity.
 Built a REST API with Laravel, adding token-based authentication via Laravel Sanctum and
layering Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) on top to separate client and admin permissions.
 Enforced strict input validation with Form Requests and used Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) to
decouple business logic from the HTTP and persistence layers.
 Documented every endpoint with OpenAPI, giving frontend developers a self-service API
reference.

Education

Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI)
 Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science (FIOT)
 Major: Computer Engineering
 2024 – 2028 (3rd-year Student)

Languages

 English: B2 (Intermediate — fluent reading of technical documentation, writing code comments
and PR descriptions).
 Ukrainian: Native (C2).