Imam part of the development team of the company and we’ve worked on a number of client and internal projects including client facing SaaS systems, APIs and mobile applications. The development stack varies between projects but its mostly PHP based. 

Software Engineer

I was part of the team developing their ecommerce platform. 

While at university I started working as a freelancer and have helped develop project of various sizes mostly for clients from other countries. 

Web Developer

I have helped build mid to big size projects with usually with the Laravel framework. Almost all from the initial planning, trough development, deployments and support long after they are launched. For some we’ve used automated testing and for some I’ve done TDD or BDD depending on the situation. That said I keep learning new techniques and frameworks and to help that process in 2016 I started the local PHP user group with several other developers and since then I have been the main organizer.  I also sometimes speak at our or other groups and conferences. 

Since my experience is around web applications I have always been involved with JavaScript as well. Everything from simple animations and Ajax calls here in there to full single page applications with BackboneJS several years ago trough Angular shortly after and EmberJS in the last 2 years. As with PHP I try to stay current and try the most popular libraries and frameworks to better inform my discussions when the teams I work in need to pick something new. Aside from Ember I have looked and VueJS recently but don’t have much experience with it yet. 

Since this has been becoming more and more popular ever since I started working professionally and ties with my interest in rich client applications in the browser I have been looking at how to better design and build APIs. Yo be absolutely honest to this day I have never been part of a team that has built a fully RESTful API but I still try to lear as much as I can. And to me if the API serves its purpose,  is not painful to maintain and is intentionally deigned that way, the of hypermedia controls meh not be that big of problem.  Of course one has to know enough to be able to make that distinction. I also have experience integrating various APIs and all the pains that come with that. 

I started working with Laravel in the early days of Laravel 4 and have been working with it since. As with all tools some things I really love and some that I don’t agree with. 

I tried to learn Ember a few years back  in its early days but it seemed too complicated. Now after working on projects with Backbone way back and Angular 1.x I can see the benefits. Ember makes it simple to bootstrap a large complex application and build some pretty complex UIs with relative ease. Though I realize that new people feel the same way I did in the beginning and all the conventions that make my life easier are also really intimidating for newcomers. 

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Boyan Y.

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