Andrey Helldar
Lead Senior PHP Developer at Temporarily do not disclose
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
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Andrey Helldar is a Lead Senior PHP Developer with 11 years of experience designing and operating resilient back-end systems, microservices, and zero-downtime deployment pipelines. Based in St. Petersburg, he has led migrations to Laravel, built offline-capable office services, and orchestrated integrations across TeamCity, GitLab, Jira, Confluence and cloud platforms. A hands-on team lead, he runs code reviews, trains engineers, and has deployed lightweight web services even on Raspberry Pi (Laraberries), reflecting a pragmatic approach to constrained environments. Andrey is an active open-source contributor to the Laravel ecosystem — with code changes in the core laravel/framework and maintaining popular localization and tooling projects (Laravel-Lang, package-wizard, cashbox-laravel). He combines deep localization expertise (improving number-to-words and multi-language validation) with infrastructure skills spanning CI/CD, server maintenance and Google Cloud migration. Colleagues rely on him for practical architecture decisions that balance maintainability, internationalization, and operational reliability.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, 3,7, Bachelor's degree, Informatics, 3,7 at Забайкальский Государственный Университет
Russian, technical english, english (with dictionary)
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Github Skills (24)
application-framework10
strings10
apidoc10
laravel-mix10
text-manipulation10
app-framework10
internationalization10
laravel10
php10
localization10
r-language10
api10
web-framework10
rlang10
validations9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Laravel-Lang/lang
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
List of 126 languages for Laravel Framework, Laravel Jetstream, Laravel Fortify, Laravel Breeze, Laravel Cashier, Laravel Nova, Laravel Spark and Laravel UI.
Role in this project:
Localization/Internationalization Specialist
Localization/Internationalization SpecialistContributions:179 releases, 4130 reviews, 1834 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Andrey's contributions primarily focused on the translation of validation strings for the Laravel Framework, including the addition of new keys for `ends_with`, and the translation of attributes and messages into Russian. The commits include grammatical fixes and improvements to the translated phrases. They also added translations for UUID related validation.
cashiermollietranslationvoyagerlaravel-spark
laravel/framework
Jan 2018 - Aug 2022
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 10 commits, 48 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrey contributed to the Laravel framework by addressing various aspects, including code optimization, bug fixes, and feature enhancements. Their work involved correcting documentation, removing redundant code, and adding new functionalities like client/server error definitions and the ability to use the uniqueFor method for Jobs. The user also implemented improvements to the string and validation functionalities, and was involved in updating and maintaining the framework's core components.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
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