Evgeny Ilin

Senior PHP Backend Developer focused on Symfony, Doctrine, API design, legacy modernization, reliable transactional backend systems, and agentic software engineering.

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Books

Eric Evans — Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Martin Fowler — Refactoring
Robert C. Martin — Clean Code
Robert C. Martin — Clean Architecture
Matt Zandstra — PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice

Summary

Senior PHP Backend Developer with 9+ years of experience building and modernizing backend systems. Strong focus on Symfony, Doctrine, API design, legacy refactoring, SQL optimization, and transactional workflows.

Engineering initiative · Dynatech SIA

Agentic Engineering

Pioneered the adoption of agentic software engineering at Dynatech SIA. Independently designed and implemented an end-to-end agentic SDLC framework covering task decomposition, implementation, code review, testing, and delivery. Applied the framework to migrate part of a legacy system from Hack to PHP 8.4, introducing modern engineering standards and practices such as OpenAPI specifications and hexagonal architecture.

Explore the Agentic Domain Workspace framework

Agentic SDLC AI coding agents Quality gates Legacy migration

Contacts

evgeny@ilin.me Telegram: @EvgenyIlin GitHub: ilinevgeny Phone: +371 260 210 18 Download CV

Salary

EUR 4800 – 5500 gross
USD 5000 – 5200 gross

Skills

Core

PHP 8SymfonyDoctrineREST APIOpenAPIDDDCQRSEvent Sourcing

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQL / MariaDBMongoDB

Infrastructure

DockerKubernetesRedisRabbitMQGit

Legacy & Migration

PHP 5.3 / 7.2PhalconLaravelLegacy modernization

Experience

Dynatech SIARiga · Sep 2023 – Present

PHP 8.4, Symfony 7, Doctrine, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, OpenAPI

Applied an independently designed agentic SDLC framework to migrate part of a legacy system from Hack to PHP 8.4 and introduce OpenAPI specifications and hexagonal architecture.
Developed automated reconciliation for banking transactions (Crassula), with idempotent, OpenAPI-contracted workflows.
Built the API for the risk-processing core and implemented scoring cards.
Developed the back office for a ticketing system.
Worked on transactional backend flows with queues (Redis, RabbitMQ) and SQL optimization.
Contributed to backend architecture decisions, refactoring, and production issue analysis.

AGCSOFT SIARiga · 2022 – Aug 2023

Symfony 5, Phalcon, Phinx, Doctrine, Redis, RabbitMQ, MySQL, MongoDB, Swagger

Developed the core sports-betting system.
Migrated legacy PHP services toward a Symfony-based architecture, separating domain logic from legacy infrastructure.

UPDEVISIONRemote · Feb 2022 – Mar 2022Short-term contract

Laravel, Doctrine

Contributed to the my.yougiver.me project.

Bolid R&DMoscow · 2019 – Feb 2022

C++, Qt, Boost, PostgreSQL, MSSQL · Git, CMake, QMake, MSBuild, TeamCity

Developed the cross-platform enterprise fire-security workstation "Orion X".

LEXPRO LtdMoscow · 2011 – 2019

PHP, Phalcon, CakePHP, Sphinx, XSLT, HTML5/CSS3 · Composer, npm, Git, Selenium, Jenkins

Refactored the legacy codebase of a legal search engine and improved search quality.
Implemented core DevOps practices: containerization and virtualization based on OpenVZ.
Implemented a microservice architecture.
Set up services monitoring with Zabbix and CI/CD with Jenkins.
Automated web-UI testing with Selenium and built the test suite.
Technical management of the "Telemedicine" project: task planning and monitoring, stakeholder interaction.

Selected Projects

TrackMyEnergy Live product

Purpose Helps users track daily activity time and personal energy capacity.

Role Creator and backend developer.

Stack PHP 8.5, Symfony 7.4 LTS, Doctrine ORM, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker.

Result Designed, built, and deployed a production web application using DDD bounded contexts and automated quality checks.

Live trackmyenergy.life

Legacy migration

Problem Aging PHP codebases hard to maintain and extend.

Role Backend developer.

Stack PHP, Symfony, Doctrine.

Result Domain logic separated from legacy infrastructure; improved maintainability.

API / OpenAPI contracts

Problem Services needed clear, reliable contracts between backend and consumers.

Role Backend developer.

Stack Symfony, OpenAPI / Swagger, REST.

Result Idempotent, contract-first APIs (risk core, reconciliation).

SQL / backend performance

Problem Transactional workloads with heavy queries and queue processing.

Role Backend developer.

Stack PostgreSQL / MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ.

Result Optimized queries and queue-driven flows for throughput and reliability.

Reference implementations

Languages

English — C1
Russian — native
Ukrainian — native
Latvian — A2

Engineering interests

DDDLegacy modernizationAPI designDistributed systemsObservabilityBackend architecture

Hobby: math, astrophysics, running, biking, diving