Aleksandr Zhuravlev
Software Engineer Technical Lead at MacroActive™
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandr Zhuravlev is a software engineer and technical lead with 14 years of experience building scalable web applications and infrastructure, currently leading a cross-functional engineering team in Brisbane. He combines hands-on backend PHP expertise—contributing to notable open-source projects like Vimeo’s Psalm static analyzer and Propel2 ORM—with pragmatic DevOps skills, having introduced Kubernetes, Terraform, zero-downtime deployments and centralized observability at scale. Aleksandr has a track record of reducing technical debt and accelerating delivery through testing, Docker-based environment unification, and migration of legacy frontends to React. He is proactive about reliability and security, having driven static analysis adoption (Psalm) to dramatically improve type coverage and implemented anomaly detection from centralized logs. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs performance-minded database and API optimizations with production-hardened operations and a history of mentoring and growing engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer/bachelor's degree, Engineer/bachelor's degree at Far Eastern Federal University
Русский, Английский
Github Skills (19)
type-inference10
static-analysis10
laravel-mix10
laravel10
php10
orm10
datagrid10
crud10
stub9
stubs9
security9
database-design9
security-testing9
security-scan9
sql8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
propelorm/Propel2
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Propel2 is an open-source high-performance Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) for modern PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 41 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily contributed to the `DelegateBehavior` within the Propel2 ORM, focusing on enhancing its functionality. Their work included modifications to the `toArray()` method to incorporate delegated properties, improvements to filtering and ordering features, and handling of double-defined fields. They also added functionality to the `Database` class to remove tables and made changes to the configuration to exclude tables.
relationalphpmodern-phpperformancemapping
zofe/rapyd-laravel
Feb 2014 - Nov 2014
deprecated rewritten in rapyd-livewire
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily contributed to the back-end of the `rapyd-laravel` project by modifying and adding features to the data form and data grid components. They introduced and improved pagination and actions for data display. The user also added internationalization support and improved the structure of the form generation, making it easier to use and maintain.
gridsphpcrudwidgetslaravel
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