🚀 Senior Full-Stack Developer
💡 PHP expert with strong frontend experience
🌍 Open to remote opportunities

I'm a senior full-stack developer with 5+ years of professional experience, focused on building clean, scalable, and production-ready systems.

• 🧩 Backend-first mindset with full-stack execution
• 🏗️ Strong focus on architecture, code quality, and long-term maintainability
• ⚙️ Comfortable working across backend APIs and frontend UI
• 👥 Experience mentoring junior developers and supporting students early in my career
• 🧭 Acted as a technical lead for a small sub-team within a larger engineering team
• 📈 Product-oriented engineer: performance, UX, and business impact matter

I value knowledge sharing, clear communication, and healthy engineering culture.

• PHP 8.x
• Laravel
• Symfony
• REST APIs, JSON APIs
• Stripe payments integration
• Doctrine DBAL, MySQL, SQLite
• Queues, background jobs, async processing
• Node.js (hands-on / educational experience)

• Livewire
• Pest
• Sail
• Forge
• Nightwatch
• Horizon
• Filament
• Pint
• Spatie packages (Media Library, etc.)

• Vue 3
• Nuxt 3
• Blade + Livewire
• JavaScript (ES6+)
• jQuery
• React (hands-on / educational experience)

I enjoy working on the frontend when it directly improves UX and product quality.

• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Clean Architecture
• CQRS (in practice)
• SOLID principles
• PSR standards (coding & interoperability)

Code Quality & Tooling

• PHP CS Fixer
• PHP_CodeSniffer
• Rector
• PHP Magic Number Detector
• PHP Insights
• PHPStan

Testing

• Pest
• PHPUnit

• Laravel Nightwatch
• Sentry

Portfolio-grade backend project demonstrating professional architecture

• Framework-less PHP
• DDD + CQRS
• Doctrine DBAL + Migrations
• Pest test suite
• SQLite for easy setup

👉 Repository:
https://github.com/Stegur/FleetCraft

• 🧪 Go — for high-performance backend services
• 🐍 Python — scripting, automation, backend tooling
• 📊 Observability & performance monitoring
• 🔐 Security best practices

• 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-stegura/
• 📧 Email: stegura.alex@gmail.com

✨ I enjoy working on products that value clean code, strong architecture, and thoughtful engineering.