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Vladimir Cravenco

Chisinau

Summary

Senior PHP Backend Engineer with over 10 years of experience , including participation in microservices design , building API-centric systems , and optimizing complex, data-driven platforms . Expertise in Laravel, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, CI/CD, and distributed architectures.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Backend PHP Developer

NDA-protected company
08.2024 - Current
  • Decomposed a monolith into microservices, improving scalability and reducing system coupling.
  • Implemented SAGA for distributed transactions, ensuring data consistency across services.
  • Introduced multi-tenancy in some microservices and prepared the architecture for its implementation in others.
  • Implemented event-driven communication between services using Kafka.
  • Introduced a number of Stability patterns (Retry Pattern + Idempotency key, Exponential Backoff, Jitter, Timeouts Pattern, Rate Limiting) for inter-service HTTP communication.
  • Set up git-hooks for local code quality checks (PHPStan, CS Fixer), and later integrated them into CI/CD.
  • Created a package for automated validation of API response structure in tests against the OpenAPI specification (swagger.json/xml).

Backend PHP/Node.js Developer

Helium10
06.2022 - 07.2024
  • Implemented a mechanism for running consumers in Laravel for SQS events, integrating AWS SQS into the existing background jobs infrastructure.
  • Implemented the collection of a user insights feed based on complex baseline criteria and user preferences, ensuring a flexible architecture according to the rules described in Robert Martin's book, Clean Architecture.

Full Stack PHP Developer

Autodoc
07.2021 - 06.2022

Involved in developing software for automated warehouse management (WMS).

Technologies used: Microservices, PHP 8 + Lumen, JS/Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker, GitLab CI, RabbitMQ, Swagger.

Full Stack PHP Developer

Webtech S.R.L.
05.2017 - 06.2021

Worked on the development of a large-scale mail project, including the REST/RPC API for it, as well as developing several application stores using Yii2 .

Full Stack PHP Developer

Smartresponder
11.2016 - 07.2017

Backend PHP Developer

Meta Sistem
01.2016 - 11.2016

Full Stack PHP Developer

Smashing Team
02.2015 - 01.2016

Education

Master's degree -

Moldova State University (USM)
Moldova
01.2015

Skills

  • PHP 8x
  • Laravel
  • Lumen
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • Microservices
  • API Design
  • REST
  • OpenAPI
  • RabbitMQ
  • Kafka
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Redis
  • Javascript

Contacts

+373 6716-8141, kravcencovladimir@gmail.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladimircravcenco-dev, @vladimirKravchenco

Personal Information

Age: 33

Languages

Russian
Native
Native
English
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Timeline

Backend PHP Developer

NDA-protected company
08.2024 - Current

Backend PHP/Node.js Developer

Helium10
06.2022 - 07.2024

Full Stack PHP Developer

Autodoc
07.2021 - 06.2022

Full Stack PHP Developer

Webtech S.R.L.
05.2017 - 06.2021

Full Stack PHP Developer

Smartresponder
11.2016 - 07.2017

Backend PHP Developer

Meta Sistem
01.2016 - 11.2016

Full Stack PHP Developer

Smashing Team
02.2015 - 01.2016

Master's degree -

Moldova State University (USM)
Vladimir Cravenco