Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer (10+ yrs) specializing in PHP/Laravel, with strong DevOps skills: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, AWS. Also experienced in Java, Python, Go, PostgreSQL. Berlin-based.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Continuous Integration
• DevOps
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Laravel
• PHP
• Postgresql
• Symfony
• Terraform

Senior software and platform engineer with 10+ years building data-intensive backend platforms and the infrastructure that runs them. Core strength in PHP (Laravel, Symfony) and Java (Spring Boot), with Python and Go, plus hands-on AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD and observability. Comfortable owning backend architecture end
to end and raising the standard around it: test suites, deployment pipelines, observability and the local development tooling the team relies on.

Grew from senior developer to backend and DevOps lead over four years at IT-Consultis in Shanghai, and have since delivered greenfield platforms for Berlin teams.

Additional technical areas I can contribute:

CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Woodpecker CI, Forgejo)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), AWS cloud infrastructure
Automated testing strategy (Pest, PHPUnit, Playwright for browser/E2E testing)
Database design and optimization (PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch)
Microservices architecture, RabbitMQ messaging, REST API design
Early-stage practical experience with LLM/AI integration: pgvector-based RAG pipelines and building an MCP server in Go
Certified: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Terraform Associate (004)

I'm comfortable working independently in small teams and am direct about the edges of my experience rather than overselling; happy to discuss fit on a call before committing to a contract.