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Ala Eddine Khefifi

@alaeddinekhefifi

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I am a Certified Symfony expert and lead developer building scalable PHP microservices and high-traffic web platforms.

France

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior technical leadership role where I can architect scalable Symfony/PHP microservices, drive DevOps and CI/CD best practices, mentor teams, and deliver high-traffic, secure cloud-native web platforms.

I am a Certified Symfony Expert and Lead Developer with 14+ years designing and architecting high-traffic, business-critical web applications.

I have led API-first and microservices architectures, implemented SSO/OAuth2 solutions, integrated subscription platforms (Chargebee), and built live video and e-commerce systems. I combine a strong DevOps culture with CI/CD, monitoring, and cloud deployments to ensure performance and reliability.

I mentor and recruit backend teams, enforce testing and code quality, and contribute to the Symfony community to stay current with best practices. I aim to drive technical excellence and deliver scalable, maintainable products aligned with business goals.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Lead Developer & Web Architect

Current

Le Figaro

Apr 2017 - Present (8 years 5 months)

Designed and implemented a centralized OAuth2 SSO and led development of key microservices (Subscription, User, Comment, Newsletter) and Chargebee subscription integration to support high-traffic production systems.

Symfony OAUTH2 RabbitMQ Redis ChargeBee Docker Elasticsearch PHP DevOps

Lead Developer & Web Architect

Atos

Feb 2022 - Jun 2022 (4 months)

Developed the ADC B2B/B2C marketplace platform for ticket sellers, delivering a full e‑commerce ecosystem used by major clients such as Air France and parisinfo.com.

Symfony Sylius PHP Docker GraphQL GCP)DevOps

Lead Developer & Web Architect

NextRoad Engineering

Dec 2020 - Jan 2021 (1 month)

Authored technical guidelines and ensured secure, high‑performance releases for a SaaS road‑infrastructure API, focusing on system stability under high traffic.

Symfony PHP Go SSO Docker Kubernetes AWS Terraform OAUTH2 MySQL

Lead Developer & Web Architect

Feetzi

Dec 2019 - Jul 2020 (7 months)

Built and deployed an end‑to‑end e‑commerce platform for shoe sales on AWS and developed backend data processing and management systems.

Symfony PHP Docker RabbitMQ Elasticsearch AWS Nginx MySQL Gitlab

Lead Developer

Optédif Formation

Jan 2017 - Jan 2020 (3 years)

Developed and hosted a large online training sales site and implemented an intelligent content generator to enrich and structure a catalog of thousands of items.

Symfony PHP Docker RabbitMQ Varnish Elasticsearch AWS MySQL JavaScript

Senior Full-Stack Symfony Developer

Digidom

Mar 2019 - Sep 2019 (6 months)

Developed REST APIs with API Platform and built backend admin interfaces with EasyAdmin, integrating JWT authentication and document management for production use.

Symfony JWT Docker PHP REST APIs JavaScript CI CD

Lead Developer

Marquetis & Co

Nov 2018 - Jan 2019 (2 months)

Developed a custom Akeneo PIM module aligned with functional specifications and development best practices to extend product information management capabilities.

Symfony Akeneo PIM PHP JavaScript Module Development

Lead Developer

MeetnMake

Nov 2017 - Dec 2017 (1 month)

Implemented an OAuth2-secured API middleware, caching with Redis, queuing with RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch search integration, and messaging/email notification systems with SendGrid.

Symfony Apigility OAUTH2 Redis RabbitMQ Elasticsearch Sendgrid PHP Testing

Lead Developer

Bourse Direct

Apr 2015 - Mar 2017 (1 year 11 months)

Architected and developed an internal CRM and stock management system, migrated legacy PHP4 apps to Symfony and implemented indexed search and centralized logging with Elasticsearch and Cassandra.

Symfony PHP Elasticsearch AngularJS PHPUnit Behat TDD

Lead Developer

Tritux

Dec 2014 - Apr 2015 (4 months)

Supervised and trained developers, defined project architectures based on Symfony 2, and enforced code quality and test coverage standards for multiple projects.

Symfony PHP Git PHPUnit TDD MySQL Linux

Senior Full-Stack Symfony Developer

SQLI Group

Feb 2014 - Dec 2014 (10 months)

Performed security and performance analyses and developed APIs for vehicle management and digital key sharing, improving application robustness and reliability.

MongoDB Python Jenkins PHPUnit Agile

Web Developer PHP & Symfony

PulpeStudio

Dec 2012 - Feb 2014 (1 year 2 months)

Designed and implemented e‑tourism and e‑commerce web applications with online payments using Symfony and Prestashop for production deployments.

Symfony PrestaShop PHP MySQL Linux Payments

Web Developer PHP & Symfony

OvyNet

Sep 2010 - Nov 2012 (2 years 2 months)

Led design, development, and testing of web and mobile applications, acted as Scrum Master, implemented CI and Git workflows, and participated in technical recruitment.