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Szymon Borowski

PHP Developer — Koszalin, Poland

About Me

PHP Developer with over 10 years of commercial experience building web applications and e-commerce platforms. Specialised in Laravel — author of a portfolio project based on Laravel 12 and microservices architecture with MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Docker.

Experienced in working with large data volumes and REST API integrations. I prefer remote work and onboard quickly into new projects and teams.

Skills & Technologies

PHP Expert

10+ years

Magento 1 / 2 Expert

8+ years

MySQL Advanced

10+ years

Laravel Intermediate

Growing

REST API Advanced

10+ years

Docker Intermediate

3+ years

HTML5 & CSS Advanced

10+ years

Responsive Web Design Advanced

Daily use

Git Advanced

8+ years

JavaScript Basic

Prototype / jQuery

Working with AI agents Intermediate

Growing

Claude Native Apps Intermediate

Growing

Work Experience

Laravel & Web Developer

Present

Personal Project

Current

Portfolio Microservices Platform:

Tech Stack: PHP 8.5, Laravel 12, RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL 8, Kubernetes, Traefik
Architecture: 6 microservices with Event-Driven communication
OAuth 2.0 SSO (Laravel Passport), RESTful APIs, Admin panel RBAC (FilamentPHP)
Asynchronous data synchronisation via RabbitMQ consumers
Kubernetes orchestration (manifests, ingress, ConfigMaps), Traefik API Gateway with TLS
Observability: Prometheus + Loki + Grafana
Quality: PHPUnit, 12-factor app, pre-commit hooks

Magento 2 Developer

Lizard Media – UX & Software House

03.2022 – 11.2023

homla.com.pl, duka.com, sportmix.pl — module installation, customisation and debugging (PHP 8.x)
Creating data installers for modules
Bug fixes in third-party and internal modules
icd.pl: Magento 1 → Magento 2 migration
Data migration scripts (PHP CLI + SQL)
Codebase adaptation to PHP 8.x requirements

Magento 1 Developer

Deligo.pl

10.2018 – 02.2022

luckygunner.com, targetbarn.com, ptacunits.com, ptac4less.com
REST API integrations with WMS (Warehouse Management System)
High-traffic handling, system maintenance and optimisation
Automated E2E tests: Selenium, Codeception, Allure
Docker development platform expansion
kellycodetectors.com: MySQL data migration scripts

Customer Support → Junior Developer → Lead QA → Senior Developer

Kinguin

03.2010 – 07.2018

Magento 1 e-commerce platforms (v1.6–1.9.2, PHP 5.6–7.1): kinguin.net, level77.pl, g2play.net
Custom module and feature development
E2E test automation (Selenium, Codeception, Allure, Galen Framework)
Writing and managing test scenarios and QA processes
MySQL data migration scripts for cross-platform data transfers
Docker development environment expansion for the dev team
Managing a team of manual testers
Running PHP and Codeception training sessions
Mentoring junior developers and QA testers
24/7 technical support, bug fixing, store maintenance

Education

Koszalin University of Technology

2004 – 2010

MSc Eng. — Mechanical Engineering & Machine Construction

Languages

Polish Native

English B1