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Zsolt Fekete

Senior backend developer

Skills, experience

  • PHP (The Right Way)

    • PHP 8+
    • OOP, SOLID, Clean Code, TDD
    • REST API design
    • PSR standards
    • Composer, experience with building private repositories
  • Laravel

    • 8+ years of experience (Laravel 4-9+)
    • Ecosystem: Nova, Horizon, Octane, Socialite, Passport, Forge
    • Composer package development (Laravel / Framework-agnostic)
  • Databases

    • MySQL / MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite
    • Designing normalized databases
    • Experience with larger datasets (100s of millions of rows)
    • Redis
    • Meilisearch
  • Frontend

    • Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap
    • Vue 2-3
    • Inertia.js
    • Nuxt.js
    • Astro
  • Devops

    • Version control systems (git, git-flow)
    • Managing Linux (Ubuntu) servers and applications
    • Designing, provisioning and maintaining application infrastucture
      • Load balancing (nginx, HAProxy)
      • Caching (Redis, CloudFlare)
      • Handling shared resources (databases, Redis, S3)
      • Database replication
      • Monitoring (Munin, Datadog)
    • Automatized deployment (Deployer, Laravel Forge)
    • CI / CD systems (GitLab CI)
    • CloudFlare infrastructure (Edge caching / CDN, Pages, Workers, D1)
    • DigitalOcean
    • Strong security-mindset
  • Languages, soft skills

    • Languages
      • Hungarian (native)
      • English (proficient in writing and speech)
      • German (conversational level, DSD/C1)
    • Collaborative and effective teamwork
    • Creative individual problem-solving
    • Solutions-focused mindset

Work experience

  • 2015- fws online

    • Working on client projects
    • Maintaining and upgrading proprietary codebases and infrastructure
    • Migrating legacy CMS to Laravel, introducing Laravel at company level with great success
    • Keeping CMS up-to-date while managing bugs and feature requests
    • Lead developer role
      • Educating and mentoring junior developers
      • Writing educational content for developers
      • Conducting code reviews
      • Designing software systems
      • Writing sofware specifications

Education

  • Software Engineering - FH Wiener Neustadt

    2011-2014 (Dropped out)