Andrew Bashtannik
Senior PHP Developer at Rentdesk
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Bashtannik is a Senior PHP Developer and backend architect with 12 years of experience, now leading engineering at Rentdesk where his team supports a product used by over 20,000 clients. He specializes in fintech and payment systems, combines hands-on coding with system design, and has deep expertise in Laravel and high-traffic PHP architectures. A long-time freelancer and founder of Analytics.md, he experiments with geospatial analytics, big data, and mobile services while maintaining production-grade discipline. His open-source contributions include fixes and validation enhancements to the widely used Laravel framework, reflecting attention to edge cases and long-term maintainability. Comfortable across the full stack, Andrew brings a rare mix of startup leadership, technical ownership, and a habit of staying hands-on with the codebase.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
IT, IT at Universitatea Slavonă
English, Russian, Romanian, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
952reputation
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11answers
4questions
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Github Skills (24)
application-framework10
validations10
laravel-mix10
app-framework10
laravel10
validation10
eloquent-orm10
php10
web-framework10
schema-design9
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
e-mail9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Laravel framework, implementing new validation rules and fixing issues related to casting and type support within the Eloquent ORM. They modified core files, including those related to validation, database casting, and schema building, demonstrating a focus on improving the framework's functionality and addressing specific edge cases. Additionally, they addressed PHP warnings and updated code style.
laravelphpframework
a-bashtannik/a-bashtannik
Apr 2022 - May 2026
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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