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Ramon PoloRP

Ramon Polo

Senior Backend Developer – PHP, Laravel, Symfony

€490/day
2 projects
Barcelona, ES
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Ramon

Software architect and backend and full-stack developerwith over 20 years of experience, helping companies turn ideas into solid and scalable digital products.

For the past 10 years, I have collaborated as a freelancer on medium and large complexity projects,directly with clients and through consulting firms**, providing technical vision, leadership, and consistent delivery of results. I incorporate **AI agentsand other advanced tools to make **development processes faster**, more efficient, and strategic.

My approach:each project becomes my own. I participate in analysis, architecture, sprint planning, back-end and front-end development, REST API integration and e-commerce platforms, as well as process optimization and the complete delivery cycle.

I work mainly remotely with teams of 3 to 10 people, traveling only when necessary.

Recent Technologies:
Laravel, Symfony, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, AngularJS, REST APIs, Azure, Cloud, AWS, SQL databases, NoSQL, Git
  • Catalan

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Russian

    Conversational

  • German

    Basic

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Consultorías. Fintech
    Tech Lead / Software Architect + Backend Developer (with AI)
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    February 2021 - Today (5 years and 4 months)
    Barcelona, Spain

    Professional Profile

    Software architect andTech Leadwith over 5 years of experience in criticalFintechprojects. I combinetechnical leadershipwith **active backend development**, delivering scalable and reliable solutions, optimizing development processes using **AI agents**, and working in regulated environments with high operational demands.

    Roles and Experience

    • Tech Lead andSoftware Architectwith over 5 years of experience in **Fintech**.
    • Freelancer / external collaborator in **technology consulting firms**, working for **national and international financial institutions**.
    • Experience in **multidisciplinary and international teams**.
    • Technical leadership combined with **active backend development**.

    Areas and Regulatory Compliance

    • Projects involvingcorporate prepaid cards**, financial **CRM/CMS**, company **onboardingand verification (KYC/KYB).
    • Regulated environments: **PSD2, AML, GDPR, PCI**.
    • Continuous experience inhigh operational demand environmentstypical of the financial sector.

    Key Responsibilities and Achievements

    • Definition of **scalable and resilient backend architecture**.
    • **Technical leadership**, mentoring, and coordination of developers.
    • **Active backend development**, critical problem-solving, and code optimization.
    • Integration with **third-party APIs and external systems**.
    • Observability, stability, and continuous improvement.
    • Use ofAI agentsto accelerate development, automate processes, and increase productivity.

    Key Technologies

    • PHP / Symfony, MySQL, Kafka, Cloud
    • Continuous integration, external APIs
    • Automation withAI agents
    Symfony Team Management External API Integration Microsoft Azure Software Architecture
  • Mobile One2One, S.L.
    Backend developer
    TECH
    December 2020 - January 2021 (1 month)
    Madrid, Spain
    Project: microservices development for a national public company

    Description: development of a loyalty points system based on financial card transactions.

    Responsibilities:
    - Design and development of new features
    - Adaptation of existing features to new requirements
    - Creation of endpoints serving both frontend and other microservices running on different servers.
    - Reading ActiveMQ queues
    - Utilization and creation of various middleware for each authentication type

    Workflow
    - GitFlow, automated deployment system (Jenkins), 4 development environments
    - Direct collaboration with other team members (team of 20+ people)
    - Redmine for project management, tasks, time tracking, lockings
    - Kibana for log management

    Technologies used: PHP (Symfony), MySQL, DDD (Domain-Driven Design), Hexagonal

    Duration: 1 month
    Symfony 4 PHP REST API
  • Johnson Controls Hitachi (a través de varios proveedores)
    Consultant, back end developer
    IMPORT AND EXPORT
    September 2014 - Today (11 years and 9 months)
    Barcelona, Spain
    Project: Hitachi Global website(s)

    Description: website development for over 20 countries, each with its variations and its own development team. Freelance collaborator through various providers (web design and development agencies).

    Responsibilities:
    - Design and development of new features / sections / functionalities of the website
    - Consulting, including meetings with the final client
    - Performance optimization (code improvements)
    - Repository management using GIT. Notably: the development team used over 50 interconnected repositories (master repo + production repos for each country + staging).
    - Direct collaboration with other team members (1 front end and 1 back end).

    Technologies used: PHP (Laravel), VueJS, MySQL

    Duration: 6 years
    Laravel Vue.js MySQL Consulting Back-End Development

Reviews

5.0

Out of 2 ratings

ArnauA

Arnau

Growwer

Reviewed on 3/8/2021

A job well done with excellent attention to detail. Highly recommended.
L

Luis

Mobile One2One, S.L.

Reviewed on 1/12/2021

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Education

  • Computer Science Engineering
    UPC (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)
    1996
  • Professor of Piano and Music Theory
    CSMMB (Higher Municipal Conservatory of Music of Barcelona)
    2001

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