Piotr Żuralski – Senior Engineer

Backend developer with 15+ years of experience in commercial web development.
Eager to achieve set goals and successfully complete the product lifecycle by developing applications and providing solutions for Continuous Integration with Continuous Deployment. Constantly delivers high quality code.

Summary

• 15+ years of experience with commercial programming
• OOP PHP Developer ([PHP 5], [PHP 7])
• More than 7 years experience with [PHP MVC Frameworks][PHP MVC framework]
• RDBMS experience: [PostgreSQL] (4+ years), [MySQL] (3+ years), [SQLite] (2+ years)
• More than 3 years experience working in project teams using [Scrum] (Agile), [Kanban] or Waterfall
• [High Traffic] optimisation (70k requests/min), application [Horizontal Scaling], [High Availability]
• Experience with caching solutions (file cache, APC, [Memcached], [Redis], [Varnish])
• [DevOps] experience of setting up Linux distributions and configuring common services
• Feeling good in Linux and Unix operating environments
• Strong back-end developer
• [Continuous Delivery], [Continuous Deployment], [Quality Assurance], [Code Review], [Code Refactoring]

Skills

• Foreign Languages: Polish (native), English (fluent), German (intermediate), Spanish (basic)
• Programming languages: PHP ([PHP 4], PHP 5, PHP 7), [SQL], [JS], [Bash], Shell, Python (2.8, 3.4)
• RDBMS: [PostgreSQL] (PostgreSQL 7, PostgreSQL 8, PostgreSQL 9), [MySQL] (MySQL 5, MySQL 8), [SQLite]
• PHP Frameworks: [Zend Framework] 1, [Symfony Framework] (2, 3, 4), [Laravel] 5, in-house [PHP MVC framework]
• PHP Templating Engines: [Smarty], [Twig]
• PHP Testing Tools: [PHPUnit], [Behat], [PHPSpec], [Codeception]
• PHP Quality tools: PHP Code Sniffer, PHP Mess Detector
• Caching solutions: (file cache, APC, Memcached, Redis, Varnish)
• Package managers: composer (PHP), npm (node.js), yarn (node.js), Bower, PyPI (Python)
• Data exchange: SOAP, REST API, FTP, SSH, JSON (JSON Schema, JSON Linked Data), XML, CSV
• VCS: git, Mercurial (hg), SVN, CVS
• Web Servers: Apache HTTP Server 1.x, thttpd, Apache HTTP Server 2.x, Nginx
• OS: Linux (CentOS, RedHat/RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu), Unix (FreeBSD, Slackware) and some MS Windows
• Virtualization: Docker, Vagrant, VirtualBox
• Working in team: Scrum (Agile), Kanban, Waterfall, Pair programming
• Front-end: [HTML 4], [HTML 5], [XHTML 1], [JS], [AJAX], [CSS 2], [CSS 3]
• Front-end Frameworks and Libraries: [jQuery], [jQuery UI], [MooTools], [Twitter Bootstrap]
• CI: GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Travis CI
• Building tools: Make, [Apache Ant], [Phing] (PHP)
• Application Testing: [Selenium], [jMeter]
• Collaboration/Wiki software: DokuWiki, MediaWiki, TWiki, Redmine, Atlassian Confluence, GitHub Wiki, GitLab wiki
• Issue trackers: dotProject, Mantis Bug Tracker, Request Tracker (RT), Redmine, Atlassian JIRA, GitHub Issues, GitLab issues
• Tools: RabbitMQ, webpack (node.js)
• IDE: JetBrains PhpStorm, JetBrains PyCharm, JetBrains IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code, NetBeans, Eclipse
• Knowledge of issues related to SEO and UX