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Алексей Лапин

@0004666

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I lead backend teams building resilient PHP and Symfony financial platforms.

Russian Federation

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for senior backend development work focused on PHP and Symfony, available full-time, part-time, or project-based in a hybrid format. I value opportunities to lead teams, modernize systems, build resilient services, and improve engineering processes.

At EcoFinance, I lead three development teams delivering internal and external financial services, coordinating priorities across core, CRM, and risk products. I drive legacy modernization, microservice extraction, observability through Graylog and Sentry, incident-response improvements, and integrations during a company merger.

Previously, I led EcoFinance’s credit-pipeline modernization from a legacy monolith to Symfony services using REST APIs and message queues. I also led the launches of nectaro.eu and honeyloan.ph, designing architecture and integrations while delivering an MVP and a reusable expansion platform.

I've built high-load Symfony applications for Match TV, Premier, WakeApp, and client projects, improving matchtv.ru load speed by 2–3x. I combine hands-on PHP, Symfony, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Docker, and Kubernetes work with hiring, mentoring, code review, and development-process leadership.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Head of Development

EcoFinance

Jan 2025 - Mar 2026 (1 year 2 months)

Managed three development teams for external and internal services, coordinated cross-team collaboration, and improved development culture and workflow. Increased system observability and led legacy phase-out, raising PHP and PostgreSQL versions.

PHP Symfony PostgreSQL Redis MemCached RabbitMQ Docker Gitlab CI Sentry Jaeger KrakenD Team Leadership Hiring Onboarding Incident Response

Team Lead / Development Group Lead

EcoFinance

May 2022 - Dec 2024 (2 years 7 months)

Established development processes, conducted code reviews, and mentored engineers. Led development of the credit pipeline, splitting a monolith into Symfony services and introducing automated test coverage.

PHP Symfony PostgreSQL Redis MemCached RabbitMQ Docker Gitlab CI Sentry Jaeger KrakenD Team Leadership Code Review Mentor REST APIs Message Queues

Lead Backend Developer

Uma.tech

Oct 2019 - May 2022 (2 years 7 months)

Developed high-traffic site matchtv.ru, migrated to Symfony, and improved load speed by 2-3x. Upgraded Symfony versions and migrated search to Sphinx/Manticore.