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Anthony AhmedAA

Anthony Ahmed

PHP Symfony Backend Developer

€500/day
5 projects
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Anthony

Looking for a Symfony Developer?
You've come to the right place.

Web developer with over 13 years of experience, I specialize in Symfony development.
I am also an official Sensiolabs certified developer.

I have worked in various sectors such as media, streaming, real estate...
I have collaborated with companies such as Radio France, Deezer, IAD...

As a Back-End web developer, I can assist you with:
- Designing, developing, and maintaining back-end functionalities in line with business needs
- Participating in the writing of detailed technical specifications
- Analyzing the impact of product design on the IT technical architecture
- Applying best practices for clean code development
- Integrating into a team that applies DDD, TDD, and Clean Architecture principles
- Developing and maintaining functionalities in PHP/Symfony
- Developing APIs
- Implementing CI/CD
- Writing technical documentation
- Setting up relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Performing unit and integration tests to ensure code quality
- Participating in refactoring, continuous improvement, and contributing to code reviews

I also have knowledge of: React, Typescript, Docker, Agile.

I also place great importance on transparency with my clients.
I send a daily report to my clients at the end of the day on all the tasks I have performed.

Shall we discuss your project?
Contact me directly via the platform.
I respond very quickly.

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  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Orléans (up to 50km), Nantes (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 50km), Bordeaux (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Believe
    PHP/Symfony Developer
    ENTERTAINMENT AND LEISURE
    September 2025 - July 2026 (10 months)
    Paris, France
    Believe is a French company, a world leader in digital music distribution. Present in over 50 countries, it drives the development of independent artists and labels through its innovative technological solutions.
    I joined the CAM (Contract Account Management) team for the modernization of the artist account and contract management tool.

    My responsibilities:
    • Development of a BFF (Backend for Frontend) with APIPlatform in a hexagonal architecture orchestrating calls to microservices
    • Development of new API functionalities to centralize the management of artist accounts and contracts
    • Implementation of royalty calculation rules per contract
    • Creation of APIs for formalizing and exposing existing databases
    • Integration of external APIs (user information, artist projects)
    • Management of contract ↔ albums and tracks linking via Symfony workers
    • CI improvement: test coverage and pipeline performance
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  • IAD
    Software Engineer
    REAL ESTATE
    September 2024 - May 2025 (8 months)
    Paris, France

    Context

    IAD is an international network of real estate agents (20,000+ advisors, 8+ countries), offering a unique platform for managing mandates, contacts, listings, and commercial steering.

    I joined the Mandate team, responsible for real estate mandate management.
    We were working on a project to unify business logic across Europe.

    The goal was to create a common solution while taking into account local specificities (Spain, Portugal, etc.).

    The Team

    I joined the Mandate team, composed of:
    • 3 backend developers
    • 1 frontend developer
    • 1 QA
    • 1 lead developer
    • 2 product owners

    Achievements

    As a Symfony developer, I:
    • Implemented business rules specific to Spain and Portugal
    • Developed the buyer charge functionality for Spain
    • Managed legal and moral representatives in the mandate lifecycle
    • Took charge of the end of exclusivity and its impact on distribution
    • Managed mandate cancellation through automatic duplication in draft mode
    • Worked in DDD, Clean Architecture, and TDD, in direct liaison with business teams

    Impact

    • Smooth integration of country specificities into a unified framework
    • Increased robustness and readability through TDD
    • Better team autonomy through event-driven propagation

    Stack

    Symfony 6.4 · PHP 8.2 · API Platform · Symfony Messenger · PHPUnit · AWS · Docker · GitHub · DDD · Clean Architecture · TDD · Agile · web developer

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  • GRDF
    PHP Symfony Developer
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    May 2023 - August 2024 (1 year and 3 months)
    Paris, France

    Context

    GrDF (Gaz Réseau Distribution France) is the main gas distributor in France, serving over 11 million customers through a network of 200,000 km of pipelines and nearly 12,000 employees.

    I joined the team responsible for the Software Factory, an internal platform dedicated to centralizing and standardizing technical projects (GitLab, Jira, SonarQube, Confluence, etc.).

    Our goal was to facilitate onboarding, industrialize DevOps practices, and improve the software quality of internal projects.

    The Team

    The Software Factory team was composed of:
    • 2 backend developers
    • 1 frontend developer
    • 1 lead developer
    • 1 product owner

    Achievements

    As a Symfony developer, my responsibilities included:
    • Evolutionary maintenance and development of new features on the Software Factory (Symfony 5.4 → 6.4)
    • Audit of existing code quality and full integration of SonarQube (metrics, coverage, custom rules)
    • Improvement of test coverage with PCOV, and refactoring of services for better readability and testability
    • Migration from Symfony 5.4/PHP 7.4 to Symfony 6.4/PHP 8.2, including updating dependencies, replacing deprecated elements, and creating a custom test listener
    • Development of a PDF reporting module based on Gotenberg, aggregating KPIs from GitLab, SonarQube, and Jira
    • Bug fixing and regular deployment of fixes to production

    Impact

    • Successful technical migration without regression, with a maintained Symfony/PHP environment
    • Significant improvement in software quality through the integration of SonarQube, tests, and coverage
    • Delivery of an automated reporting tool facilitating project monitoring for managers

    Stack

    Symfony · PHP 7.4/8.2 · SonarQube · GitLab CI · Docker · Gotenberg · PHPUnit · PCOV · Jira · Confluence · Agile · web developer
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Education

  • DUT Informatique
    IUT d'Orléans
    2011
  • Web Marketing Project Manager Certification
    EFREI
    2012

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