Aleksandr Manichev is a seasoned Tech Lead with 14 years of experience designing and delivering high-load, backend-first systems for e-commerce and iGaming. He specializes in PHP/Symfony architectures, event-driven platforms (Kafka, ClickHouse) and modern observability practices, driving measurable improvements in reliability and performance. Aleksandr has a strong track record of building internal standards—unified Symfony bundles for Kafka, GraphQL and OpenTelemetry—and accelerating delivery through GraphQL federation and API gateway patterns. He pairs hands-on engineering with team-building, having led R&D efforts, run 30+ technical interviews, and instituted technical debt reviews that cut error rates and sped up analytics queries by an order of magnitude. Based in Limassol, Cyprus, he combines pragmatic legacy-modernization skills with a product-aware mindset that reduces cross-team friction and time-to-market. An uncommon strength is his focus on reusable developer tooling that both raises quality and delegitimizes bespoke integrations across organizations.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Инженер, ТАЭПП, Инженер, ТАЭПП at Уральский Государственный Технический Университет
Symfony bundle which provides integration of Sphinx search engine with Symfony using SphinxQL
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
sphinx-searchbundlephpsymfony-bundlesearch-engine
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