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Andrii Kuzmenko
Senior PHP Backend Developer · Laravel · 9+ years
📍 Lisbon, Portugal ✉ [открыть контакты](см. выше в блоке «контактная информация») 📱 [открыть контакты](см. выше в блоке «контактная информация») 🇪🇺 EU work authorisation

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Senior PHP / Laravel engineer with 9+ years of commercial experience building and scaling backend systems
for high-load products. Worked on a large-scale iGaming platform, sustaining a cadence of up to 40
production deployments per week alongside a team of 30+ engineers. Hands-on with the full async stack —
Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka — and comfortable taking ownership of production systems end-to-end: design,
testing, CI/CD, and production support.
Based in Lisbon with full EU work authorisation — available for remote roles across Europe or relocation.
CORE SKILLS
Backend Databases & Cache

PHP · Laravel · REST API · OOP · SOLID MySQL · Redis · query optimisation
Messaging Infrastructure

Kafka · RabbitMQ · Redis Queue Docker · Portainer · Nginx · CI/CD · Linux · Git
· Git Flow
Architecture Testing

Repository Pattern · Service Layer · Events · PHPUnit · Feature Testing
Queues · Caching
Auth & API Frontend (supporting)

OAuth · JWT · Swagger / OpenAPI · Postman Vue.js · JavaScript · jQuery
Monitoring & Tools

Kibana · Composer · Jira · Webpack
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PHP Backend Developer · 4RABET Mar 2023 – Jun 2026
Large-scale iGaming platform · Operations team · Remote
▸ Impact: Sustained delivery of up to 20 production tasks per week across bug fixes and medium-
complexity backend features, working within a team of 30+ backend engineers.
▸ Production stability: Investigated and resolved production incidents across a large-scale legacy Laravel
codebase, identifying root causes in distributed message flows (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
▸ Feature delivery: Implemented REST API improvements and business-logic features covering payments,
bonuses, and user management domains in a high-traffic iGaming context.
▸ Quality: Wrote PHPUnit and Feature test suites that improved regression coverage for critical payment
and bonus flows.
▸ Process: Participated in CI/CD pipeline and Agile ceremonies; used Kibana for log analysis and
production monitoring.
Stack: PHP · Laravel · MySQL · Redis · RabbitMQ · Kafka · Docker · PHPUnit · Kibana · CI/CD
PHP Backend Developer · Crypto Exchange (NDA, Spain)Mar 2022 – Mar 2023
Greenfield crypto trading platform · Full product cycle
▸ Delivery: Designed and built REST API endpoints for a crypto exchange platform from specification to
production, covering order placement, wallet operations, and account management.
▸ Quality: Participated in code reviews and maintained high test coverage with PHPUnit and feature tests
throughout active development.
▸ Support: Diagnosed and resolved production issues in a fast-moving early-stage product environment.
Stack: Laravel · PHP · Docker · MySQL
PHP Backend Developer · ElementicaMar 2021 – Mar 2022
Real estate platform · European markets
▸ Development: Extended a multi-market real estate platform with new backend features targeting
European property listings and search.
▸ Frontend: Built reusable JavaScript components in collaboration with UI/UX designers and QA engineers.
Stack: Laravel · PHP · JavaScript
PHP Backend Developer · Face ITMar 2019 – Mar 2021
 ▸ Architecture: Architected and delivered Laravel applications from scratch, including ACL systems and
role-based access control.
▸ Performance: Optimised slow SQL queries, reducing response time on data-heavy pages for client
production systems.
▸ Client work: Conducted technical discovery meetings with clients to translate business requirements into
backend specifications.
Stack: Laravel · PHP · MySQL · Vue.js · Vuex
PHP Backend Developer · UkrosoftDec 2017 – Mar 2019
▸ Delivered multiple client Laravel projects end-to-end; mentored a junior PHP developer.
Stack: Laravel · PHP · MySQL · Jira
Earlier experience (2016–2017)
Junior PHP Developer at Complex Solution / Aurora Team (2016–2017) and Brickweb (Oct–Dec 2017): started
commercial Laravel development, worked with WordPress, built JS functionality, maintained legacy PHP
applications.
EDUCATION
Master's Degree in Computer Science · Zaporizhia State Engineering Academy · 2006–2011
LANGUAGES
Ukrainian — Native · Russian — Native · English — B1 (comfortable in technical discussions, actively
improving)