I build backend systems that stay reliable under production pressure.

I’m a Senior Backend Engineer with 11+ years of professional experience building and operating production systems for international clients and remote teams. My foundation is deep PHP and API engineering, extended over the years into search platforms, system integrations, automation, and the infrastructure that keeps all of it observable and reliable.

I currently work with one of Europe’s leading media licensing platforms — hundreds of millions of editorial and stock images and videos served to newsrooms, sports media, and brands worldwide — where my day-to-day spans backend APIs, Elasticsearch-powered search, authentication, CDN and caching behaviour, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and debugging real production incidents. Before and alongside that, I’ve delivered through platforms like Turing and Upwork — including a client relationship that has lasted more than five years.

What I enjoy most is the unglamorous part of backend work: finding why a system misbehaves under load, modernizing legacy code without breaking business-critical workflows, and leaving every codebase more maintainable than I found it. I combine that traditional engineering discipline with AI-assisted workflows — using tools like Claude for architecture planning, test generation, code review, and documentation — to deliver faster without lowering the bar on quality.