senior lead laravel symfony drupal* engineer
Enthusiastic and highly motivated professional with insatiable hunger for continuous self-development.
25 years
25 years of multinational engineering experience: client- and agency-side, agile and waterfall, scrum and kanban.
70+ projects
Specialising in Laravel, previously in Symfony and Drupal and Drupal Commerce, with focus on e-commerce and FinTech.
1.1k+ commits
Open source contributor. Official Symfony contributor. Past developer and maintainer of multiple Drupal modules and non-Drupal projects.
1.6k+ contributions
1k+ posts
Striving community supporter in drupal.org issue queues and documentation, Drupal Answers and Stack Overflow. Erratic blogger.
3 countries
Made in Poland, improved in the UK, exported to France. Based in sunny Antibes in Alpes-Maritimes.
international experience
25 years of multinational backend engineering experience:
client- and agency-side, agile and waterfall, scrum and kanban.
client- and agency-side, agile and waterfall, scrum and kanban.
Senior Software Engineer
Paris, France
Jan 2022 - Feb 2025
PHP 8, Laravel 9, RESTful, OpenAPI, PHPUnit, Cypress, MySQL, RabbitMQ, GCP, Docker, GitHub, SonarQube, DevOps, CI, Jira, Confluence, Agile, Scrum, Kanban
Backend Symfony Developer
Paris, France
Jan 2018 - Jan 2022
PHP 7.4, Symfony 4/5, RESTful, OpenAPI, PHPUnit, Prophecy, Infection, Cypress, MongoDB, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, GCP, Docker, GitLab, SonarQube, DevOps, CI, Jira, Confluence, Agile, Scrum, Kanban
Lead Drupal Developer / Technical Consultant
Paris, France
Feb 2016 - Dec 2017
Drupal Commerce and custom module development and site building (both Agile and Waterfall), Drupal expertise and consultancy, technical support and dev coaching (internal, for integration partners and final clients), trainings, pre-sales.
Lead Drupal Developer / Technical Consultant
Paris, France
Aug 2012 - Jan 2016
Drupal Commerce and custom module development and site building (both Agile and Waterfall), Drupal expertise and consultancy, technical support and dev coaching (internal, for integration partners and final clients), trainings, pre-sales.
Senior Drupal Developer
Paris, France
Apr 2011 - Aug 2012
Development and enhancements to online micro-credit platform www.microworld.org , powered by Drupal (Pressflow) / MySQL / Memcache / APC / Varnish / Pound. Integration with Oracle Flexcube banking system and Sugar CRM.
Lead PHP Developer
Paris, France
Nov 2008 - Mar 2011
Online affiliation / marketing systems for some of the best-known brands on French and British markets (UGC, Virgin, Dell, Ipoints etc). Zend Framework-based high load applications managing millions of users and transactions. Integration with client systems and other affiliation platforms (TradeDoubler, Commission Junction, Zanox etc). Project management and documentation. Mentoring and leading other developers.
Freelance Web Developer / Consultant
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Apr 2008 - Nov 2008
Web design and development, enhancements and maintenance to existing solutions. Artwork design. Email campaigns design and management. Advice and consulting.
Senior PHP Developer
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jun 2007 - Nov 2008
Development of rich internet applications and websites. Maintenance and enhancements to existing solutions. Consulting, training and ongoing support for clients. Account and project management, project documentation. Mentoring and leading other developers.
Freelance Web/IT Developer
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jan 2007 - Mar 2007
Design and development of the company website, streamlining IT systems within the office, maintaining business databases, other general IT tasks.
Co-founder, Editor, Art Director & Publisher of "Zmywak Magazine"
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Sep 2006 - Jun 2007
"Zmywak" was the first free lifestyle magazine for Polish community in Scotland. A unique, high standard, glossy publication, in a pocket-book format, being both a useful source of information and good entertainment, accompanied by dynamic online portal, very quickly made its way to the hearts of Polish community, becoming one of the most popular Polish magazines in Scotland.
Co-Founder / CTO
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Sep 2006 - Sep 2018
Major digital campaigns, websites, content management systems, intranets, extranets, search engine optimisation and email marketing campaigns. Web development, maintenance and enhancements. Account and project management, project documentation.
Administrator
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jan 2006 - Jun 2007
Maintaining and updating business databases, training and development of team members, other general administrative duties.
Owner
Katowice, Poland
Jan 2000 - Dec 2005
Web development, online marketing, hosting services. Consulting and training.
selected clients
Enterprise and boutique companies from all corners of the world.


























