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Senior Backend Developer (PHP/Laravel) | Al Agents And RAG Expert | n8n Automations Engineer

Chisinau, Moldova

Summary

Senior Backend Engineer with 4+ years of high-impact delivery across backend architecture, financial systems, Al-powered automation, and large-scale Laravel ecosystems.

Proven track record of:

• Driving critical architectural decisions as the Second Founding Engineer at a multi-million-euro valuation company
• Building scalable systems (queues, workers, async pipelines, horizontal scaling)
• Rewriting financial infrastructure resulting in 90%+ workflow automation
• Shipping end-to-end products, including a fully deployed cross-platform social app
• Designing RAG pipelines, Al agents, and automation frameworks used in production

Fluent in English, Romanian, Russian; professional Dutch understanding.

Key Achievements

• Led Finance Software Refactoring
  • Complete refactor and enhancement of an insurance company's financial system, in collaboration with the PO & C-level stakeholders
  • Increased Test Coverage from 20% to 97%
  • Increased test coverage to 97%, enhancing reliability and improving CI/CD significantly.

Skills

• Backend: PHP, Laravel, Laravel Cloud, REST APIs, WebSockets, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Node.js
• Architecture & Scaling: Microservices, Async Pipelines, Distributed Workers, Horizontal/Vertical Scaling, CI/CD, Docker, Observability, Secure Payments, AWS
• AI & RAG Systems: LLM Integrations, Embeddings, Vector DBS, Pgvector, ChromaDB, Multi-Agent Orchestration, Prompt Engineering
• Automation & Integrations: n8n, Payment Systems, IDEAL, Stripe, ETL Pipelines, Web Scraping, Cross-Platform Deployments
• Frontend: Javascript, Typescript, React

Experience

Brilic Media

• Senior Backend Developer
• Chisinau, Moldova
• 08/2025 - 11/2025
  • Second Founding Engineer at a multi-million-euro valuation tech company, owning backend architecture, engineering standards, and core technical decisions.
  • Developed a reusable file-management boilerplate powering more than three commercial projects, cutting development and delivery time by 90%+.
  • Built scalable, distributed processing pipelines (queues + workers), enabling high throughput and stable performance under traffic spikes.
  • Architected Laravel Cloud infrastructure (CI/CD, secrets, multi-environment deployments), reducing deployment incidents.
  • Implemented APIs, microservices, and other backend systems.

AssuradeurenGilde b.v.

• Medior Full Stack Developer

• Remote

• 02/2024 - 08/2025

  • Led a complete financial system refactor, improving scalability and security and reducing page freeze times from 12 minutes to 0 seconds.
  • Automated B2B payment workflows (IDEAL / Bluem), reducing manual finance workload by more than 90%.
  • Optimized database queries and data structures, improving overall request performance by 45%.
  • Collaborated directly with C-level stakeholders to execute a smooth, error-free production rollout.

• Full Stack Developer Internship

• Coevorden, Drenthe, Netherlands

• 09/2023 - 02/2024

  • Improved backend, frontend, and database logic across legacy systems.
  • Assisted in building ETL pipelines in Symfony for financial data processing.

Growth Tribe

• Frontend Dev Support and QA
• Remote
• 04/2021 - 05/2023
  • Increased test coverage from approximately 20% to 97%, enabling faster CI/CD cycles and eliminating recurring regressions.
  • Built integration and unit tests, improved QA documentation, and resolved pipeline issues.
  • Delivered minor React features and UI fixes across the platform.

Certification

• IBM RAG and Agentic Al Professional Certificate - IBM
• C1 Advanced - Score 190 Cambridge Assessment English
• Secure Programming Minor Degree NHL Stenden University Of Applied Sciences
• Blockchain Minor Degree - NHL Stenden University Of Applied Sciences
• Digital Marketing - Growth Tribe

n8n Automations

Built automations for:

• Report analysis and KPI extraction
• Sales Al agents (voice-calling sales agent)
• Cosmetology chatbot with onboarding rules
• Newsletter scrapers
• Multi-agent content and idea generators
• Integrations with Trello, Google APIs and Meta APIs

Projects

Peach (Social Media App)

• Remote
• 08/2023 - 01/2024
  • Successfully led and executed the end-to-end development of a cross-platform social media app. Delivered secure API communication, Stripe payments, real-time push notifications, and ensured scalable deployment on both Android and iOS.
  • Designed, built and deployed a full social media app (Android + iOS)
  • Implemented secure API backend, Stripe payments, push notifications, scalable database
  • Launched publicly on App Store & Google Play
  • Engineered for cost-effective scaling and fast global performance

Prompt Engineering Tool

• Built a React + Node.js tool, improving prompt accuracy by 30%.
• Implemented experimentation features, analytics, and rapid iteration UI.

Education

NHL Stenden University Of Applied Sciences

• Bachelor of Applied Science - Information Technology
• Emmen, Netherlands
• 09/2020 - 07/2024