Alexander Kurilo is a System Architect with 12 years of experience specializing in PHP systems, DevOps/SRE practices, and migrating large monoliths into containerized microservices. At Playtika he has driven technical direction for Bingo Blitz, leading containerization, Kubernetes adoption, and splitting a complex PHP monolith into Java microservices while continuing hands-on improvements to legacy game engines. He pairs deep practical knowledge of bare PHP and testing—demonstrated by QA-focused contributions to the well-known PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet repo—with strong observability and automation skills across Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and multiple APMs. Based in Warsaw, he blends systems-level architecture thinking with day-to-day engineering and test automation, making him as comfortable designing platform migrations as tightening test suites and CI for production workloads.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Radioelectronic Systems, BS, Radioelectronic Systems at Belaruski Dzjaržauny Universitet Informatyki i Radyjoelektroniki
A pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and data within the PhpSpreadsheet repository. Their commits involved removing unused data from test sets, making HTML checks more strict, adding readable labels to data provider samples, and reorganizing test data for various reader functionalities. Additionally, they added a check for the GD extension when saving images, indicating a focus on testing and ensuring code quality for spreadsheet operations.
Tool for making PHP code quality tools only report errors relevant to a pull request
Contributions:3 releases, 16 PRs, 21 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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