Vladislav (Dezer) Kuzmenko
/** Team Lead · PHP / Symfony */
About_me {
I’m a backend engineer with 12+ years of experience building systems in PHP — Symfony and Laravel, microservices, integrations and payment gateways. I currently lead the engineering team at Tec Fx BackOffice in Cyprus. A hard problem is a good problem; one that also demands a non-obvious approach is a better one.
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Work experience {
Team Lead @Tec Fx BackOffice
February 2023 – Present
- PHP
- Symfony
- MySQL
- Docker
- CI/CD
- Lead the engineering team that builds an FX broker’s back-office platform; own planning, code reviews and technical direction.
- Build and extend the PHP/Symfony back-office platform, including client portals and internal tools for support and operations teams.
- Design domain modules and REST APIs that move data between internal systems.
- Tune MySQL schemas and queries to handle growing volumes of client and trading data.
- Own the development infrastructure, including Docker environments, CI/CD pipelines and automated pre-merge checks.
- Establish automated testing, static analysis and shared coding standards while mentoring the team.
Lead Microservices Developer @Mafin
May 2021 – October 2022
- PHP
- REST API
- RabbitMQ
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Built the insurance product aggregation platform at the core of the company’s offering.
- Designed the platform’s microservice architecture.
- Built new services and improved existing ones.
- Built shared libraries for service-to-service communication via REST APIs and RabbitMQ.
- Built a shared library that made test development faster and simpler for the whole team.
- Created Docker images and Kubernetes deployment manifests for company services.
- Managed the product development team.
- Ran internal engineering meetups and organised a hackathon focused on challenging technical problems.
Lead Web Developer @Absolut Insurance
May 2018 – May 2021
- PHP
- Nginx
- MySQL
- GitLab CI
- CentOS
- Maintained and optimised the company’s websites and services.
- Configured, monitored and administered the company’s CentOS 7 web servers.
- Set up and maintained the Nginx, PHP-FPM and MySQL/MariaDB stack.
- Developed new services for the company.
- Built a REST API for the payment gateway service.
- Implemented an integration with an online card-acquiring provider.
- Rolled out Git across the company’s development teams.
- Set up CI/CD pipelines for company services using GitLab CI and Docker.
- Introduced Capistrano for deployments.
- Mentored developers and managed the team.
Back-end Developer @CTC Media
December 2017 – May 2018
- PHP
- 1C-Bitrix
- Capistrano
- GitLab CI
- Maintained and extended websites for the broadcaster’s channels.
- Worked with 1C-Bitrix, the CMS that powered the company’s websites.
- Improved the performance of existing web applications.
- Started the transition to continuous integration with Bash deployment scripts, Capistrano and the team’s first GitLab CI configuration.
Full-stack Web Developer @Youweb
September 2015 – October 2017
- PHP
- Yii
- Laravel
- 1C-Bitrix
- Java
- Built and supported complex web applications.
- Delivered projects using the Start, Small Business and Business editions of 1C-Bitrix, including custom components and integrations with 1C.
- Supported projects and services built with Yii 1, Yii 2 and Laravel.
- Built Telegram bots in Java.
- Built web interfaces in JavaScript.
- Built and extended components for MODX, Joomla, WordPress and OpenCart.
- Quickly learned unfamiliar codebases and extended them.
- Used Git for version control day to day.
- Completed technical SEO work commissioned by Ingate.
Freelancer @Freelance
June 2013 – August 2015
- PHP
- JavaScript
- WordPress
- MODX
- Developed desktop applications in PHP.
- Built and extended websites with Joomla, WordPress, 1C-Bitrix and MODX.
- Implemented complex designs in HTML and CSS.
- Built custom automation tools.
Skills {
- PHP
- Symfony
- Laravel
- Go
- Microservices
- REST API
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- CI/CD
- RabbitMQ
- MySQL
- Testing
Education {
Information Systems and Technologies @Bryansk State Technical University
Class of 2015
Faculty of Information Technology. Coursework in algorithms, databases and information systems design still informs how I architect services today.
Get in touch {
Open to technically challenging projects and roles. Drop me a line — I read every message and respond promptly.