Andy Postnikov
Maintainer at Drupal Project
Hanau, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Postnikov is a seasoned application developer, system architect, and project leader with 13+ years building client/server systems and relational database solutions across MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MSSQL. As a long-time Drupal maintainer and CTO at Prospect Drupal, he combines deep PHP and Drupal expertise with hands-on system architecture and project management. He contributes to notable open-source tooling—improving Drush and modernizing XHProf for PHP 7/8—to keep profiling and CLI workflows compatible with evolving PHP internals. Comfortable spanning backend development, database design, and platform-level fixes, he often tackles subtle compatibility and API drift issues that break tooling during language upgrades. Based in Hanau, Germany, his background in control systems and information systems gives him a methodical engineering approach to complex integration problems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, low-level fixes that prevent operational surprises in production.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Control systems, Control systems at Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)Information systems, Information systems at Sevastopol State Technical University
Русский, Английский
Github Skills (14)
cli10
testing10
command-line-interface10
drupal10
php10
php-extension10
drush10
curl10
symfony10
command-line10
symfony-ux10
configuration-management9
phpunit7
cicd5
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
longxinH/xhprof
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
PHP7/PHP8 support
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Andy focused on enhancing the XHProf PHP extension, primarily addressing compatibility issues and feature enhancements related to PHP 8 and later versions. Their contributions included fixing API discrepancies and adapting the extension to accommodate changes in the PHP core, particularly concerning the handling of curl resources. They also updated tests and made improvements to URL generation within the report generation code. Furthermore, the user addressed warnings and fixed compatibility issues with the XHProf tool itself.
xhprofphpphp81php-extensionphp7
drush-ops/drush
Mar 2014 - Jun 2022
Drush is a command-line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for those who spend their working hours hacking away at the command prompt.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 12 commits, 15 PRs in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the Drush project, focusing on improving its core functionality. Their work involved refactoring and updating existing command-line interface tools. They also enhanced the system to support profiling tools like XHProf and Tideways, including adding configuration options. Furthermore, they addressed compatibility issues, such as PHP 8.1 issues related to batch processing and yaml parsing.
prestashop-moduleshellcliscriptingsymfony-console
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