Senior PHP backend engineer (10+ years) and team lead. I build high-load, fault-tolerant platforms in fintech/PSP, e-commerce, and iGaming using PHP 8 (Laravel/Yii2/Symfony), MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka/NATS, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD. Strong in system design (DDD, hexagonal, CQRS), REST/gRPC, payments and compliance, observability, and integrations. Currently adding Python.
