Aleksei Zarubin is a full‑stack Laravel and Vue.js engineer with 11 years of experience building and architecting SaaS products, internal tools, and developer workflows. He has led backend teams and shipped critical systems for clients and companies including Expivi, Edubookers, and a chess platform for the Disney movie "Queen of Katwe," and currently co‑founding Bolide AI while contributing to Simtech Development. Known for bringing engineering discipline to teams, he created company-wide engineering wikis, optimized CI/CD pipelines, and built Docker toolkits that doubled release cadence. An active open-source maintainer, Aleksei contributed substantial features to the popular laravel-orion package to simplify REST APIs and complex relation handling. He pairs pragmatic engineering with a continual learning mindset—evidenced by language studies in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese—and a soft spot for cookies.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Non-Degree Korean Language, Non-Degree Korean Language at Seoul National University
Non-Degree Japanese Language, Non-Degree Japanese Language at Seigan Nihongo Gakkou
Non-degree Chinese Language, Non-degree Chinese Language at 天津理工大学
Contributions:66 releases, 21 reviews, 441 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Aleksei primarily worked on adding features to the Laravel Orion package, which simplifies building REST APIs. Their contributions included implementing functionality for creating and managing relation resources, standardizing responses related to pivot operations, and handling pivot fields when storing and updating resource relations. Furthermore, the user introduced a mechanism to automatically cast JSON pivot fields to arrays and extended the functionality to support various relation types like "belongsTo," "hasManyThrough," and handling polymorphic relationships.
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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