Pavel Rodin

Twenty years of production PHP backend experience. High-traffic systems, legacy codebases from the PHP 5 era, architectures where every deployment was a high-stakes event.

My specialization: incremental modernization of legacy software. Not a complete rewrite — modernization that delivers value at every step and preserves what already works.

I typically get involved when:

— the codebase hinders product evolution

— performance degrades without clear explanation

— the database has become the bottleneck

— deployments are manual, slow, or unpredictable

— the system needs to be upgraded before a sale, funding round, or scaling

Recommended input format: a 3- to 5-day technical audit. Concrete deliverable — codebase status report, priority fragility points, quantified modernization plan. No commitment beyond that. The next steps are decided based on a document, not a promise.

Stack: PHP 5.x to 8.x, Laravel, Symfony, Yii2.

MySQL / PostgreSQL. Docker, CI/CD, Redis.

Hexagonal architecture, DDD, Strangler Fig and Anti-Corruption Layer patterns for zero-downtime migrations.

Remote from Belgrade, Serbia. CET timezone — no difference with French, Swiss, Belgian, or Luxembourgish teams. Immediately available.

Fluent French — four years lived and worked in France. Technical discussions, documentation, progress meetings: all in French, without intermediaries or loss of nuance.