Ivan Atanasov is a seasoned PHP backend leader based in Berlin with nine years of hands-on experience delivering scalable web applications. Currently a Senior PHP Developer and Tech Lead at Contorion, he blends deep PHP expertise with agile leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration, having worked in Scrum and Kanban environments. He has built and maintained systems from vanilla PHP to Laravel, with a strong preference for Laravel 5, and hands-on experience with MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and legacy refactor work. Ivan has contributed across freelance projects and roles at companies such as Helpling, notebooksbilliger.de AG, Market Media Ltd, and Studio77d, often taking on architecture, task prioritization, and onboarding. He values the team above all, welcomes constructive feedback, and stays eager to learn new frameworks and technologies to keep delivering robust, collaborative solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Telecommunications, Bachelor, Telecommunications at Technical University of Sofia
High school, Computer technologies, High school, Computer technologies at UKTC Pravets
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Ivan Atanasov - Senior PHP Developer Tech Lead at Contorion