Tudor Danes

Senior PHP Backend Developer

Salary / Daily rate

33700 Mérignac, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

ElasticsearchPHPLaravelSymfonyPythonDockerGame Design

Languages

EnglishFrench

About me

Intro

Senior PHP backend developer with 10+ years of expertise in e-commerce and microservices architecture. Successfully led platform refactoring projects for major online retailers and scaled applications serving thousands of users. Specialized in PHP/Symfony development with proven experience in API design, Elasticsearch integration, and CI/CD optimization.

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Work experience

Backend PHP senior developer

Reuter Gruppe

Aug 2023 - Present

3 years 3 months

PHP developer for the main e-commerce site of Reuter - one of the largest online retailers for bathroom and living culture (reuter.com), using an in-house designed framework. Tasks : - Refactor the Checkout area by using cleaner code and new templates - Migrate code and data to Elasticsearch in a Symfony application Tech stack : PHP, Symfony, MySQL,Elasticsearch, jQuery, HTML/CSS, git

Senior Back End Developer

TieTalent

Nov 2021 - Apr 2023

1 year 6 months

12000 Rodez, France

TieTalent matches rockstar talents with innovative companies across Switzerland & Germany through a unique mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise. I worked with 2 backend devs, 1 front-end dev and the Product manager. I've been responsible for the refactoring of the Company and Candidate platforms, we switched from a monolithic approach to a micro-services architecture using API calls and JWT tokens. Other tasks : - Manage API endpoints used for communication btw front and backend - Refactor existing code, several improvements - Creating feature tests for the backend endpoints (PHPUnit/pest) - Customize the GitLab CI/CD pipeline - Ensuring we implement best practices - Debugging/fixing a Machine learning project in Python and making it available as AWS web service - Review and approval of merge requests

Open Source Developer

Crowd Favorite

May 2021 - Sep 2021

5 months

50055 Romanina, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy

Founded in 2007, Crowd Favorite was the original WordPress agency focused primarily on enterprise clients. Over a decade later, we’ve evolved into a multi-discipline, digital consulting firm specializing in enterprise-grade digital strategy and elite Open Source development After an initial period of 1 month of doing advanced WordPress topics courses, I worked on 2 projects : 1. A WordPress platform for schools/colleges/universities to promote their offers (https://schoolchoiceweek.com/) - Integration with Salesforce API - Integration with Mailchimp API 2. Refactoring a WordPress platform used by a broadcast network to a Laravel-based microservices architecture - Database design/ Migrations - CRUD actions Technology stack : PHP/Wordpress/Laravel, Javascript, Git, HTML/CSS

PHP Developer

Ventivo Group

Sep 2020 - Jan 2021

5 months

50055 Romanina, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy

Digital Wood Tracking System - The aim of the project is to provide a platform for monitoring the wood cutting and the entities around this process. It is built for governamental authorities - The architecture : micro-services with API Tasks : I worked 90% on back-end code - CRUD APIs - Database design (tables and views) - Roles and permissions - API documentation but i also had some front-end tasks as well : - displaying resource listing - add/edit forms with validations Tech stack : Laravel, Postgresql, Vue.js, Git

Senior PHP Developer

Self-Employed

Jul 2019 - Sep 2020

1 year 3 months

Bistrița, Romania

During the last year, i worked on several projects : - Real-estate website (residentialist.ro) : changed search filters to include ranges (eg. price between 10k and 20k) - E-commerce platform (gomag.ro) : back-end module for managing categories' aliases - Medical appointments management tool (for dentists) : created micro-services for the back-end Tech used : PHP/Symfony/Laravel, Docker, git, MySQL, unix

Senior PHP Developer / Freelancer

davask - your D.N.A.

Jul 2018 - Jul 2019

1 year 1 month

Bistrița, Romania

I worked on several projects : 1. Q&A site for French Laws Usual tasks : solving bugs and adding new features Tech stack : PHP/ October CMS 2. API access to French Laws stored in Elasticsearch I switched the DB from MySQL to Elasticsearch Tech stack : PHP/Lumen, Elasticsearch 3. Different Wordpress projects Usual tasks : - adding new features - hacking into WP All import/export plugin - solving bugs - update to WP 5.x

Senior Web Developer

Sony Center Romania

Oct 2014 - Jul 2017

2 years 10 months

Homer, AK, USA

Development and maintenance of SonyCenter online store and Internity online store * Writing code from scratch * Integration with payment gateways (MobilPay, AlphaBank, Bancpost) * Mobile version for premiumbrand.ro * Bug fixes / Improvements Tech stack : PHP, MySQL, JS(jQuery), Apache

Senior PHP Developer

Smartcrew

Mar 2014 - Oct 2014

8 months

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

The Best Song - mobile app for music discovery. I worked on the database design and development of backend services for the application. Also worked on creating CLI tasks for fetching data from EchoNest API (huge database with music information). Tech stack : PHP Phalcon, My SQL, Javascript, TDD (Codeception)

Senior PHP Developer

Fortech

Jul 2013 - Feb 2014

8 months

Cluj County, Romania

Indri – Digital Marketing platform (www.indri.co) • Development and maintenance; added new features : management of custom domains for customers’ pages • Migration of logs from Couchbase to MySQL • Bulk import of products in CSV format Technical environment : PHP5, Yii framework, Couchbase DB, MySQL, jQuery, git, Apache

PHP Developer

SOTRAVO

Oct 2012 - Mar 2013

6 months

Paris Area, France

Keltravo.com –B2C portal, interface between individuals and professionals in Buildings/Public works • Ensuring the proper functioning of the site, tickets resolution, development of a validation interface for back-end • Publication of new clients demands on social networks (Facebook, Twitter) ; API development Technical environment : PHP5, MySQL, jQuery, Smarty, svn, JIRA


Education

Université Polytechnique de Bucarest

Diplôme d’ingénieur, génie électrique; informatique

1995 - 2000

6 years

Département des sciences de l’ingénieur, langue française

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